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Shabbat Reading: Tom Dent's Southern Journey
#whatireadovershabbat Tom Dent's Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement In 1991, Tom Dent took a nine-month road trip to...

Yeshua Tolle
May 21, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Steven Weitzman's The Origin of the Jews
#whatireadovershabbat Steven Weitzman’s The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age If you want what the title seems to...

Yeshua Tolle
May 14, 20231 min read


Publication: Translation of Abraham Regelson's "Manual Labor"
My translation of Hebrew writer Abraham Regelson's story "Manual Labor" appears in the Spring 2023 issue of Exchanges.

Yeshua Tolle
May 9, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
#whatireadovershabbat Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (trans. John E. Woods) I didn’t read The Magic Mountain in one Shabbat. Yes, the...

Yeshua Tolle
May 7, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
#whatireadovershabbat Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (trans. George Bull) This one was drier than I expected. For all its reputation as...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 30, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Elie Wiesel's Night
#whatireadovershabbat Elie Wiesel's Night, translated by Marion Wiesel (1956; Hill and Wang, 2006) Each year that passes puts us at...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 23, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
#whatireadovershabbat Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, translated by Michael R. Katz (1866; Liveright, 2017) The Russian novel...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 16, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
#whatireadovershabbat James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916; Modern Library, 1996) There’s no Künstlerroman more...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 9, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Roberto Calsasso's The Celestial Hunter
#whatireadovershabbat Roberto Calasso's The Celestial Hunter, translated by Richard Dixon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) The Celestial...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 2, 20231 min read
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