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Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman is a two-time winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award. His most recent book is the poetry collection, Meditation on a Tooth.

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    A Comma in the Blood

    How Natalia Ginzburg’s doctrine of ‘universal compassion’ empowered the exhausted morality of our times, in which it is both easier and more righteous to side with the losers

    byKenneth Sherman
  • Levon and the Hawks in 1964, with Robbie Robertson at far right
    Levon and the Hawks in 1964, with Robbie Robertson at far right
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    Robbie Robertson’s Tailor

    How my father and his brothers suited up Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and the rest of The Band

    byKenneth Sherman
  • 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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