Russia Is Retaliating against Israeli Airstrikes in Syria by Punishing the Jewish Agency
It may also be sending a message to Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
July 28, 2022
One of America’s Greatest Sports Novels Tells a Deeply Jewish Story
The Natural at 70.
Considering Bernard Malamud’s best-known book, The Natural, on the 70th anniversary of its publication, Rich Cohen calls it “the most American of Jewish novels and the most Jewish story in American folklore.” Made into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford and Glenn Close, it is the story of Roy Hobbs, a wildly talented baseball player who becomes the star hitter for the fictional New York Knights before coming to a tragic end. The child of Russian-Jewish immigrants, the Brooklyn-born Malamud turned increasing to Jewish themes in his fiction after writing The Natural. Cohen observes:
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The Natural at 70.
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