Judith Shulevitz

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Judith Shulevitz

Listen1.0x0:0018:00Listen to more stories on harkHow should we understand miracles? Many people in the near and distant past have believed in them; many still do. I believe in miracles too, in my way, reconciling rationalism and inklings of a preternatural reality by means of “radical amazement.” That’s a core concept of the great modern Jewish philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Judith Shulevitz

1 hour agoFilmmaker Sanoj Mishra, who offered a film to viral girl from Maha Kumbh Mela Monalisa Bhosle, has been arrested on rape charges. The 45-year-old was taken into custody in Ghaziabad on March 30 after his bail application by the Delhi High Court. Mishra has reportedly been accused of rape by a …

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Judith Shulevitz

The Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed behind and were murdered, probably in the Ponary forest outside Vilna, along with 75,000 others, mostly Jews. After the war, Grade moved to the United States and wrote some of the best novels in the Yiddish language, all woefully little known.

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Judith Shulevitz

Listen1.0x0:0018:22Listen to more stories on harkThe Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed behind and were murdered, probably in the Ponary forest outside Vilna, along with 75,000 others, mostly Jews. After the war, Grade moved to the United States and wrote some of the best novels in the Yiddish language, all woefully little known.

Jan 14, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Judith Shulevitz

Listen1.0x0:0014:01Listen to more stories on harkIn 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to be translated into English. The novel, in which a woman who suddenly refuses to eat meat is treated as if she were mad, was read as a parable of the modern condition, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis or “A Hunger Artist,” updated for the age of feminism and ecopolitics.