Sylvia Barack Fishman, at The Blogs

Oct 1, 2024, 8:10 PM

While enlightened writers avoid anti-Jewish hate speech, many seem to believe that belittling Jewish women isn’t antisemitic. Iconoclast Sam Kriss, reviewing Joshua Leifer’s Tablets Shattered, for example, summarized his Judaism as “a big pile of books, a good recipe...

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Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ph.D., is a Professor of American Jewish life and culture, emerita, in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University. The author of eight books and numerous articles, she received the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and writes and speaks on contemporary Jewish life.