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...Operation Shylock by Philip Roth. The uncontested master of comic irony comes up with another ticklish situation: a writer named Philip Roth journeys to Israel to confront a Philip Roth imposter who is trying to persuade Jews to go back to Europe and re-establish Yiddish culture. This new Diaspora aims to avert an Arab-engineered Holocaust by returning Israelis to the countries of their ancestors. Seriously funny about Middle East madness, Roth riffs with an abandon not seen since Portnoy's Complaint...
...will have to be cleared with Kidd. However, it seems that other groups are not subject to the same scrutiny. A pair of students on the payroll of Cartoon Network, for instance, hold promotional events around Harvard Square and are planning a TV discussion night with Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. Adam C. Estes ’07, meanwhile, has been busy working for Vitamin Water as a student representative. Last year, he brought a thousand bottles of the stuff to the Harvard-Yale tailgate, giving it out for free as a “non-alcoholic...
...interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public transportation system in the United States to see a symphony and shop on Newbury street, and partied at million dollar mansions that masquerade...
Hammonds’ plans to implement the task force’s recommendations were well received by most of the Faculty, though Mansfield and Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse expressed their disappointment with what they called affirmative action-style policies designed to achieve “numerical parity...
Matisyahu Rebel Roots: White Plains, N.Y. Reggae Sound: The Hasidic hipster who hails Bob Marley in Yiddish has two fall albums. Island Cred: Some Rastafarians view themselves as the original Jews...