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Yeshua Tolle
Aug 20, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Droshes un ksovim
#whatireadovershabbat Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s Droshes un ksovim Yiddish has become very fashionable. I should know, I studied it for...
Yeshua Tolle
Aug 6, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
#whatireadovershabbat Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989; Everyman's Library, 2012) An aging butler goes for a trip in the...
Yeshua Tolle
Aug 3, 20231 min read
Press: "Those Days Are Gone Forever" Editors' Pick in Mosaic
My review of Sandra Fox's The Jews of Summer was selected as an editors' pick in the magazine Mosaic.
Yeshua Tolle
Jul 30, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
#whatireadovershabbat John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Years ago I read Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. I’m reminded why I loved...
Yeshua Tolle
Jul 24, 20231 min read
Publication: Under the Sign of the Middle Passage
My article "Under the Sign of the Middle Passage" appears as the lead piece in the Summer 2023 issue of TSLL.
Yeshua Tolle
Jul 22, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
#whatireadovershabbat Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus: The Life of German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend (trans. H. T....
Yeshua Tolle
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Publication: Those Days Are Gone Forever
My review of Sandra Fox's new history of Jewish summer camp, The Jews of Summer, appears in the summer issue of the Jewish Review of Books.
Yeshua Tolle
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast
#whatireadovershabbat Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast “This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very...
Yeshua Tolle
Jun 25, 20231 min read
Shabbat Reading: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
#whatireadovershabbat Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden I know a lot of people read The Secret Garden growing up. Not me. I...
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