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Ed Simon

Ed Simon is a senior editor at The Marginalia Review of Books and an adjunct assistant professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. He is the author of America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion. His Twitter feed is @WithEdSimon.

  • Hani Furstenberg in Doron and Yoav Paz's 'The Golem' (2018)
    Hani Furstenberg in Doron and Yoav Paz's 'The Golem' (2018)
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    Jewish Horror

    Judaism offers the same baroque supernatural possibilities that Christianity does. So why is it rarely a universal source for genre filmmakers? And what does it say about human evil?

    byEd Simon
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    Is Frankenstein’s Monster the Golem’s Son?

    A Jewish literary mystery for Halloween

    byEd Simon
  • A portrait of John Selden, artist unknown.
    A portrait of John Selden, artist unknown.
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    ‘Rabbi’ John Selden and the Restoration of the Jews to England

    How the modern academic discipline of ‘Jewish Studies’ was invented in Renaissance England by the the greatest Christian Hebraist of the age

    byEd Simon
  • Collage by Tablet. Interpretation of the first committee's seal proposal, made by Benson Lossing in 1856. The obverse drawing is slightly incorrect; the linked state initials should be on the shield itself.
    Collage by Tablet. Interpretation of the first committee's seal proposal, made by Benson Lossing in 1856. The obverse drawing is slightly incorrect; the linked state initials should be on the shield itself.
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    Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims’ American Jewish Holiday

    How the biblical narrative of Exodus helped shape the founders’ idea of a secular nation with liberty for all

    byEd Simon
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    Amelia Lanyer, the First Female Jewish English Poet and Shakespeare’s Dark Lady?

    On the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death, drawing back into the light the talented woman who may have inspired some sonnets and The Merchant of Venice

    byEd Simon
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