Daily Archive: January 20, 2016

nnThe Modern Murasaki, the first collection of its kind, brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women’s writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, the anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal...

CHRISTOPHER COLLINS DISCUSSES PALEOPOETICS n“When we feel powerfully moved by what words do to us, I think it’s because we’ve entered into some deeper, older part of us, a place of wisdom and wholeness that is preverbal, even prehuman.”—Christopher CollinsnnThe...

The following is an interview with Michael R. Cohen, author of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious MovementnQuestion: When did you begin your study of Solomon Schechter and his rabbinical students?...