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Harvey Blume

Film Review: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Jews Coddled in Big Sky Country

This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amy Geller, Chaim Bruk, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, The Rabbi Goes West

Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion

Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Harold Bloom, Harvey Blume

Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It

It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Anthony Lane, BBC America, Emily Nussbaum, Godless, Harvey Blume, Killing Eve, Netflix, The New Yorker

Book Commentary: Portnoy’s Revenge

There’s something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth’s fiction.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Harvey Blume, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

Feature: Favorite Books of 2017

Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bob Israel, Harvey Blume, Helen Epstein, Lucas Spiro, Matt Hanson

Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the First Age of Terror, Assaf Gavron, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, Death by Water, Harvey Blume, Look Who's Back, Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life, Roberta Silman, the FBI, The Hilltop: A Novel, The Sympathizer, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam-War

Book Review: An Evocative Biography of Zionist Agitator and Writer Vladmir Jabotinsky

There’s room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvey Blume, Hillel Halkin, Israel, Jabotinsky: A Life, Jewish Lives, Jewish nationalism, Judaism, Revisionism, Short Fuse, Vladmir Jabotinsky, Yale-University-Press, Zionism

Book Review: Russia’s “Vodka Politics” — An Inseparable Duo

What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvey Blume, Mark Lawrence Shrad, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics

TV Review: Simon Schama Tells His “Story of the Jews”

Simon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Harvey Blume, Jews, Simon Schama, Story of the Jews

Short Fuse: Quotes for the New Year

Fuse Writer Harvey Blume supplies some quotations for the new year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Harvey Blume

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