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Shelley Salamensky

Shelley Salamensky is a scholar and writer. Her work has previously appeared in Tablet, as well as The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

  • Athletes of the German team celebrate during the official opening ceremony of the 14th European Maccabi Games at the Waldbuehne open-air stage in Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2015.
    Athletes of the German team celebrate during the official opening ceremony of the 14th European Maccabi Games at the Waldbuehne open-air stage in Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2015.
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    In Berlin, a New Beginning

    At the European Maccabi Games, an estimated 2,000 Jews convened at the site of the 1936 Olympics for a week of competition, remembrance, and moving on

    byShelley Salamensky
  • (Burr photo © Michael Strong, courtesy HarperCollins; Hollywood sign: Getty Images)
    (Burr photo © Michael Strong, courtesy HarperCollins; Hollywood sign: Getty Images)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    Smells Fishy

    Chandler Burr’s new novel is an anti-Jewish tirade

    byShelley Salamensky
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    Butcher Boy

    What makes the guts of a novel Jewish?

    byShelley Salamensky
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