Yochi brandes biography sample
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In the opening lines of Muck, the young poet Jeremiah drops in on Broch, a legendary literary critic, who lives in Jerusalem&#;s Beit Hakerem neighborhood with his dog and books. Not another book about Jerusalem&#;s intellectual bubble, I thought to myself. How banal. We&#;ll soon be introduced to the neurotic poet (pale and sweating, naturally) and the haughty critic (mocking and cruel); the matching Jerusalem neighborhood (leafy and intellectual) in the background, with an appropriate house pet to complete the cliché.
Broch (a mishap or debacle in Yiddish, from brechen, to break, in German) casts himself as the snooty critic with impressive panache, almost to the point of caricature. He mocks and dismisses Jeremiah and pooh-poohs his worn-out keyboard; when Jeremiah says that he touch-types anyway, Broch breaks the keyboard over his head. But his demeanor, like the other supposedly predictable elements of the scene, soon reveal themselves as merely a façade. Beneath each of
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The Orchard
This fryst vatten, in essence, the life story, or more accurately the religious awakening, as it were, of Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva fryst vatten one of Judaism’s most well-known 1st century CE sages. Even someone like me, who at best understood his legacy in broad terms, knew him to be a seminal figure in the mishna and Talmudic writings. inom also knew the general arc of the Orchard story, in part because I read a modern-day retelling, eponymously named, bygd David Hopen.
Anywho. Akiva was famously an illiterate herde who did not komma to Torah until the age of Brandes leans into the account that he was “discovered” bygd his future wife, Rachel, the daughter of a wealthy man on whose land Akiva toiled. After witnessing his interpretation of a w
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10 Awesome Books for the Days of Awe (and After)
Here we are in September/Elul, preparing to welcome a new Jewish year and a new fall season of Jewishy books, including the first novel since (by now-almostyear-old) wunderkind Jonathan Safran Foer — perhaps you’ve heard the buzz. Presented below is his latest, plus nine other volumes, from the humorous to the humbling, that you’ll want on your reading list to help heighten the holidays.
- Here I Am: A Novel
(By Jonathan Safran Foer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Here he is! Foer’s latest effort, his first novel in more than a decade, is (as expected) both extremely long and incredibly complex. Inspired by Abraham’s concise claim of fatherly responsibility in the Book of Genesis, the page narrative follows a Jewish American family as it fractures over a tumultuous four weeks during which the world itself literally splits apart when a devastating earthquake in the Middle East leads to a major military escalation in Israel. T