Susanna Mancini (Bologna): To Be or Not to Be Jewish: The UK Supreme Court Answers the Question. From the Jewish Review of Books, an article on the curious case of Mark Zborowski and the writing of a modern Jewish classic. It is no accident that Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex while having an affair with Jewish novelist Nelson Algren. From Tablet, recent right-wing rejections of Einstein’s theory of relativity echo Nazi dismissals of what they called "Jewish Physics"; and Harry Houdini exhibited two very different public faces — master of escape and anti-mystical firebrand — that were united by his Jewishness (and more). From Forward, Arthur Green on how Hasidism went astray; and an article on spelling "G-d": By golly, it’s the deity again (and more). An interview with Abraham H Foxman on anti-Semitism. Barry Rubin on Friedrich Nietzsche, the strangest antisemite of them all. Early Zionist writing evoked the tragic male hero, bound by the cruel destiny of his people and himself — it’s true of many contemporary works, including Kushner and Spielberg’s Munich. A video extolling the American Jewish World Service plays on stereotypes that may have been offensive in the past. Saul Austerlitz on the evolution of the Jewish Comedy Nerd. Yabba Dabba Jew: Fred Flintstone was voiced by a New York Jew who modeled his delivery on the immigrants he grew up among. Jews and the Booze: Brewers for thousands of years and we’re still sober.
