Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish People?
Simon Rabinovitch and Ruth Calderon discuss identity, equality, and the Jewish nation-state bill Between December 2014 and October 2015 Marginalia ran the “Defining
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First Impressions #50: Samuel Moyn
Special guest host Simon Rabinovitch talks with Samuel Moyn about his new book Christian Human Rights. Moyn is Professor of Law and History
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A Blessing on Your Head, and Other Ways to Deliver a Beating in Yiddish – By Simon Rabinovitch
Simon Rabinovitch on Yiddish Fight Club Yiddish is rich in the vocabulary of street-violence, taken from the ring, the docks, and the factories
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A Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab
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Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the
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