Michael Weingrad

Jun 3, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Michael Weingrad

Print Email Kindle Analyzing the 1970 film I Love My Wife, and its obviously Jewish leading man Elliot Gould, Michael Weingrad observes an “uncomfortable obfuscation of a certain kind of sociological Jewishness” found in other movies of the era: In I Love My Wife, we see the protagonist early on as an adolescent being launched toward a lifetime of sexual compulsion by a neurotic mother who, for instance, pounds on the bathroom door to make sure he isn’t masturbating. (He is.) It’s all...

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Michael Weingrad |Alan Mintz |Julian Levinson

Review By – April 26, 2024 In 2003, Arthur Miller looked back at a dark moment in Amer­i­can Jew­ish his­to­ry that he had dra­ma­tized in his 1945 nov­el, Focus. ​“The anti-Semi­tism I ran into all over the place was fierce,” Miller recalled of the World War II years in Amer­i­ca. ​“And yet there was no sign of any recog­ni­tion of it or acknowl­edge­ment of it in the pub­lic domain, not in nov­els, not in plays … I felt it had to be unearthed.

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Allegra Goodman |Akiva Schick |Michael Weingrad

New Vessel Press 320 pp., $17.95 The first time I laughed out loud was on page eleven, when Ilana Goldstein, the titular Hebrew teacher of Maya Arad’s new collection, meets the newly minted professor of Hebrew and Jewish literature at her midwestern university. Yoad Bergman-Harari trained at Berkeley and has just completed a postdoc at Columbia.

Jan 22, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Yosef Lindell |Michael Weingrad |Abraham Socher

Some days are goslin days. At least that’s the conceit of “Goslin Day,” a 1970 horror story by the fantasy and science fiction writer Avram Davidson, who would have been one hundred in 2023. Solomon Faroly awakens one morning to a “hotsticky feeling in the air, the swimmy looks in the dusty corners of windows, mirrors; something a tension, here a twitch and there a twitch. Notgood notgood.

Jul 9, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Michael Weingrad |Ruby Namdar

Xargol Books 356 pp., 98 NIS In the preface to Shanim tovot (Happy New Years), published earlier this year, the editor, Dr. Gabriela Sadan (Sadovnik), informs us that the main text has “no literary value whatsoever.” But then Sadan, a prominent academic who researches contemporary American feminist thought and women’s migration history, observes that in our capitalist and patriarchal society, literary value itself is an illusion, merely a register of oppressive power relations.