Matthue Roth

1 month ago | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jenna Weissman Joselit |Akiva Schick |Matthue Roth |Shai Secunda

Purim—the whole shebang, from the ancient story on which the holiday is based to the contemporary ways in which it’s celebrated—always struck me as raucous and overegged. After seeing the Jewish Museum’s latest revelation of an exhibition, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, I just might change my mind.

Oct 15, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Matthue Roth |Franz Kafka |Ross Benjamin

Review By – October 15, 2024 About a decade ago, the organization where I worked launched a rotating authors’ blog in partnership with Jewish Book Council. One of our early wonders — a little glimmer that whispered in our ears, You’re doing something right—was the work of author and cartoonist Ken Krimstein, who drew original content all week. Krimstein’s latest project, Einstein in Kafkaland, is a whimsical, thoughtful story whose lyricism will grab readers at unexpected moments.

Apr 20, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Matthue Roth |Franz Kafka |Peter Wortsman |Roberto Calasso

One of the most telling (yet pos­si­bly apoc­ryphal) anec­dotes about the Czech Jew­ish writer Franz Kaf­ka: He sits in a room full of friends and reads one of his ear­ly works aloud. At points he has to stop. He can’t car­ry on. He is laugh­ing too hard. Suf­fice to say, no one else is laughing. Replace those friends in the room with — oh, I don’t know, every­one in all his­to­ry — and that’s how, a lot of the time, one feels about Kafka’s sto­ries. They’re weird and freaky and fun­ny.