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Shabbat Reading: Roberto Calasso's The Tablet of Destinies
A sequel (of sorts) to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Living is a heavy business. Living has no weight at all.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 17, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers
A story of the spiritual dissolution of the German Empire without match in intimacy or panoramic scope.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 10, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Robert Boyers's Maestros & Monsters
A loving tribute to two temperamental titans of modern letters.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Magda Teter's Christian Supremacy
#whatireadovershabbat Magda Teter's Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (Princeton University Press,...
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 26, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: The Epic of Gilgamesh
#whatireadovershabbat The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars (Penguin, 1972) Some stories never grow old. The Epic of...
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 19, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Amos Elon's The Israelis
#whatireadovershabbat Amos Elon's The Israelis: Founders and Sons, 2nd ed. (Penguin, 1983) Amos Elon’s portrait of Israel is unsparing....
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 12, 20231 min read
from My Commonplace Book (collecting)
Certainly Elisabeth did not know that every collector hopes with the never-attained, never-attainable and yet inexorably striven-for...
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 4, 20231 min read
Publication: Welcome to the New Campus Normal
"Welcome to the New Campus Normal: A Dispatch from Ohio State." Jewish Review of Books , November 2, 2023. My article "Welcome to the New...
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 2, 20231 min read
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