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Jason Epstein

Jason Epstein was a founder of The New York Review of Books and co-founder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America.

  • Benzion Netanyahu and his son Benjamin, then Likud party leader, meeting in Benzion’s Jerusalem home on election day, February 8, 2009.(Michal Fattal/Likud via Getty Images)
    Benzion Netanyahu and his son Benjamin, then Likud party leader, meeting in Benzion’s Jerusalem home on election day, February 8, 2009.(Michal Fattal/Likud via Getty Images)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Benzion Netanyahu’s History

    The Israeli scholar, and the prime minister’s father, died today in his Jerusalem home. He was my political opposite, but also my teacher and friend.

    byJason Epstein
  • Jane Jacobs in Washington Square Park, 1963.(Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
    Jane Jacobs in Washington Square Park, 1963.(Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    City Girl

    For the 50th anniversary edition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, her publisher remembers the urban activist

    byJason Epstein
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