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James Winchell

James Winchell recently retired from teaching at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.

  • René Girard in Paris, 1979.
    René Girard in Paris, 1979.
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    The Brilliant French Catholic Literary Critic Who Revealed My Judaism

    Campus Week: An important new biography of the late René Girard takes one academic back to the origins of his astonishment

    byJames Winchell
  • Franz Rosenzweig as a young man in Goettingen, 1905
    Franz Rosenzweig as a young man in Goettingen, 1905
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    A Great Thinker Rediscovers His Judaism on the Day of Atonement

    Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was set to convert to Christianity a century ago. Yom Kippur services changed his mind.

    byJames Winchell
  • (Dana O'Keefe/Hulu)
    (Dana O'Keefe/Hulu)
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    ‘Speed’ Levitch, Neo-Hasid

    Is the free-associating tour guide and hipster icon, star of a Hulu original series, the hidden saint of our times?

    byJames Winchell
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; insect Shutterstock)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; insect Shutterstock)
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    Kafka’s Yom Kippur Appeal

    A century ago this High Holiday, Franz Kafka composed two masterworks, both informed by his Jewish heritage

    byJames Winchell
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Shutterstock)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Shutterstock)
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    The Healing Power of Jew-Love

    Gertrude Himmelfarb argues that the philosemitism of writers like George Eliot can be a cure for anti-Semitism

    byJames Winchell
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