June 2007
Features
Mitch Ginsburg
How the disastrous draining of Israel’s Hula Valley helped change Zionist attitudes toward the land and gave birth to the country’s environmental movement.
Shaun Levin
D.H. Lawrence made “Gertler feel more of a Jew than a painter, telling him that only someone with two thousand years of suffering could create such a work, that Jews would sound the final death-cry of the epoch, that Gertler was flying like a moth towards a flame...”
THE MOMENT INTERVIEW
In this exclusive interview, Mailer speaks about his new book, The Castle in the Forest, Adolf Hitler’s childhood and real-life devils.
Essay
Mandy Katz
History shows that the impulse to persecute the Jewish people does not prevent anti-Semites from falling in love with Jewish women—and men.
Departments
Nadine Epstein
Gershom Gorenberg
Naomi Ragen
Leonard Fein
Marshall Breger
An anonymous suicide bomber gets a Manhattan makeover in Day Night Day Night.
The anti-Semitic slur is back in town and this time it may be friendly.
There’s good reason to call Scott Fried an “angel of safe sex.”
What does Judaism say about being a workaholic?
The Atomic Lady
A piece of plywood and a pair of goggles help artist Dalit Gurevich establish her post-kibbutz individuality.
Books
David Margolick reviews Primo Levi’s A Tranquil Star
and Steven Erlanger reviews Sari Nusseibeh’s A Palestinian Life.
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