Jim,
Thank you for your very objective and well expressed response.
From a personal perspective, as a Jewish Studies bibliographer in an
non-sectarian college library , I find this source very useful (and
considering how inexpensive it is!), I would certainly recommend it
to my colleagues
It is a real shame that there still Jews suffering from the sickness of
leftist extremism that makes them so blind as to unable even appreciate such
an important for modern Jewish life cultural undertaking as the Jewish
Review of Books.
Alexander Gendler
FROM THE MODERATOR: Mr. Gendler - The
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Moreover, you will be ostracized and placed under a herem, as hinted
by the writer of this innocuous article.
Heidi Estrin helped me analyze the article in our mentoring session.
And. Yes. It really is an innocuous article. On the Ostracized Note,
here in Spain there's an
I think that Braiterman's critique of the Jewish Review of Books is
wide of the mark. I have read almost all of the articles that have
appeared. In the cases where it is possible to detect any political
leanings of authors, it would be a sort of middle of the road
liberalism. It is true, to
In my opinion this is another veiled attack on freedom of speech in
the name of freedom of speech. Those of us who read The closing of
the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and
impoverished the souls of today's students
by Allan David Bloom, published in 1989, are
Colleagues, I am forwarding a link to an article that I found very
interesting, particularly as it relates to a very critical
examination of the funding and policies behind the Jewish Review of
Books. Am curious to know if others have noticed the biases the
author
describes.
On Sunday afternoon, AJL's Greater Cleveland Chapter had its annual
Jewish Book Month Tea. Abraham Socher, the editor of the Jewish
Review of Books and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Oberlin
College was the speaker and his talk, with lively discussion
afterwards, inspired me to
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