Word: jewish
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...expert on American poetry, and her research interests range from Puritanism in colonial New England to modern Jewish literature...
...bride and bridegroom, both Jewish, each have three children from previous marriages...
...freedom of the press in Turkey as it relates to the Armenian genocide? Justin McCarthy, professor of history at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, says that he thinks that the events were not genocide because some Armenians survived. Can you imagine the same words being said about the Jewish Holocaust? Would such a statement be acceptable to Time magazine? The narrator of the dvd says (over images of the genocide monument in Yerevan ) that historical facts were falsified when they were transmitted to the young generation. Can you imagine a dvd presenting images from the Yad Vashem monument, together...
...year ago, according to the economics professor who asked not to be named, Shleifer hosted Summers and several other members of the economics department, at his home to break their fasts after Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. At one point that night, the two friends played a game of ping-pong. Summers won easily, but the Harvard president is an avid tennis player, so the outcome was never really in doubt. Shleifer, one might say, was screwed...
...debut novel, 2000's Bee Season, Myla Goldberg intricately etched four members of a contemporary Jewish family and set them in motion against one another, charting the repercussions of even their subtlest interactions. For her follow-up, the author changes tack completely, striving for the historical epic. In Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday; 336 pages), the travails of Lydia Kilkenny, a young woman from an impoverished Irish Catholic family, are rooted in such global events as World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic that left millions dead...