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Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman is a poet and essayist. His most recent book is the memoir Wait Time.

  • Leonard Cohen performing at the love-in at Queen's Park, Toronto, 1967
    Leonard Cohen performing at the love-in at Queen's Park, Toronto, 1967
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    Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park

    Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry

    byKenneth Sherman
  • Isaac Rosenberg’s self-portrait, 1915, painted in the year he enlisted. Despite being a pacifist, he believed ‘we must all fight to get the trouble over.’
    Isaac Rosenberg’s self-portrait, 1915, painted in the year he enlisted. Despite being a pacifist, he believed ‘we must all fight to get the trouble over.’
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    Isaac’s War

    Before dying in the trenches, the Bristol-born, Lithuanian Jewish painter Isaac Rosenberg became the greatest English war poet that nobody’s ever heard of

    byKenneth Sherman
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    Neo-Poland: An Original Poem

    Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law

    byKenneth Sherman
  • Georg Mordechai Langer.(Tablet/Shutterstock/Wikipedia Commons)
    Georg Mordechai Langer.(Tablet/Shutterstock/Wikipedia Commons)
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    Kafka’s Gay, Hasidic Hebrew Teacher

    Was Georg Mordechai Langer’s the first modern attempt to reconcile homosexuality and Judaism?

    byKenneth Sherman
  • A kosher butcher in New York City, 1933.(J. B. Lightman, American Jewish Historical Society)
    A kosher butcher in New York City, 1933.(J. B. Lightman, American Jewish Historical Society)
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    Homecoming

    Yuri Suhl’s One Foot in America, a long-lost novel of Jewish American immigration that reads like a more Dickensian take on Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, has been republished and deserves a new audience

    byKenneth Sherman
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