Edward Rothstein
Critic at Large at The Wall Street Journal
Critic at Large @WSJ Emblems of Mind: https://t.co/DAA9a4xUjF NYT: https://t.co/zTIpv4EgOI
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1 month ago |
sapirjournal.org | Edward Rothstein
While protests at university campuses since October 7, 2023, have earned appropriate notoriety for their violence, tactics, and support for Hamas, similar demonstrations have been on view at America’s museums.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
wsj.com | Edward Rothstein
Amherst, Mass. As you descend a ramp into the main exhibition space of the Yiddish Book Center, you walk alongside a display of 49 books. Here are volumes about America (“The Land of Wonder,” as a 1939 volume from Warsaw has it), a 1922 account of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott’s exploration of Antarctica, 1929 tales of Argentinian gauchos.
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Sep 27, 2024 |
wsj.com | Edward Rothstein
Naoshima, Japan: The pilgrimage from Kyoto requires a series of trains followed by a ferry to an island port. Head along a coastal road, and eventually, when you look out over the water, you see a giant gourd—a bulbous, outrageous, polka-dotted pumpkin—more than 6 feet high. It squats at the end of a dock that stretches out into the Seto Inland Sea, mountains and freighters in the distance.
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Sep 3, 2024 |
wsj.com | Edward Rothstein
In ordinary conversation when we speak “diplomatically,” we are, in part, lying. We avoid saying precisely what we mean. Diplomatic speech decorously cloaks what might otherwise provoke. Outposts of Diplomacy: A History of the Embassy Reaktion Books 256 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
mosaicmagazine.com | Edward Rothstein
The letter “I” that begins the Latin translation of the first book of the Hebrew Bible is shaped by an unusual series of illuminations in the 13th-century Abbey Bible from Bologna, Italy. The letter’s vertical body is composed of blue, ochre, and gilt rondelles, illustrating each day of the Creation. But the letter’s elongated base shows another set of events: the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
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RT @SapirJournal: Out today, SAPIR’s new issue features pieces from Brown University President Christina H. Paxson, Israeli journalist Amit…
Gratitude to @mosaicmag for featuring my 2015 essay on Lincoln and the Jews: "Jews have shaped American life from the nation's beginning—through culture, politics, economics, and most importantly, through the Hebrew Bible and Jewish ideas. This deep Hebraic influence has made
Now that the #NEA is again in the crosshairs, issues from a generation ago return with a vengeance. Here is my '97 @nytimes essay about the "ideology of democracy" and the arts: https://t.co/9UTCsQIgAC "We ask democracy to be the moral, spiritual and esthetic compass by which our
