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‘If meaning lies anywhere for Shimoni, it is in the things that can’t be avoided’
‘If meaning lies anywhere for Shimoni, it is in the things that can’t be avoided’

My Favorite Anti-Semite

More from our occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

The director’s films tackled the grandest questions in German culture and politics, before he turned his critical eye to the Jews

BY MARDEAN ISAAC

E. F. Cooper/Wikimedia Commons

Edith Wharton

There’s a barbarian at every gate

BY ANNE ROIPHE

Lucian Bert Truesdale/Wikimedia Commons

H.P. Lovecraft

The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature

BY HUNTER C. EDEN

Library of Congress

Ty Cobb

He was the greatest and strangest of all ball players, a fierce competitor, and a hateful person

BY ARI HOFFMAN

BODIG/ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES

Gregor von Rezzori

Why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew

BY WESLEY YANG

AP

Amiri Baraka

Kaddish for the late poet with a history of bigotry, from a poet with a feeling for jazz

BY JAKE MARMER

Wikimedia Commons

Frank Norris

The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem

BY ELISA NEW

Wikimedia

Rupert Brooke

Regardless of whether or not we should forgive our favorite artists for these sorts of opinions, one thing is clear: We definitely want to.

BY ALEXANDER ACIMAN

Escape From Mariupol

A Holocaust survivor and her family in hiding and on the run

byEdward Serotta
Putin’s War
Putin’s War
Putin’s WarMark Podwal
The Highest Flights of the Ukrainian Soul

A translation of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s prescient essay on the life-affirming desire for distinctiveness

byMarat Grinberg

There are few examples of a nation doing so thoroughly and so quickly the deep work of digging in the darkest depths of its own crimes.

—Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Highest Flights of the Ukrainian Soul

A translation of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s prescient essay on the life-affirming desire for distinctiveness

byMarat Grinberg
Putin’s War
Putin’s War
Putin’s WarMark Podwal

There are few examples of a nation doing so thoroughly and so quickly the deep work of digging in the darkest depths of its own crimes.

—Bernard-Henri Lévy

Putin’s War
Putin’s War
Putin’s WarMark Podwal
The Highest Flights of the Ukrainian Soul

A translation of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s prescient essay on the life-affirming desire for distinctiveness

byMarat Grinberg

There are few examples of a nation doing so thoroughly and so quickly the deep work of digging in the darkest depths of its own crimes.

—Bernard-Henri Lévy

‘American Jewish humor at its best asserted the neurotic glory of Jewishness against the white-bread norms of middle-class life’
‘American Jewish humor at its best asserted the neurotic glory of Jewishness against the white-bread norms of middle-class life’
Salman Rushdie in 1992
Salman Rushdie in 1992
Maira Kalman, ‘Woman Holding Chicken,’ 2021
Maira Kalman, ‘Woman Holding Chicken,’ 2021
Punk Dog’s Body

The debut from Model/Actriz is a punishing, addictive punk record—with inspiration from Broadway

byDavid Meir Grossman

What makes punk so unique, such that all sorts of people claim themselves as the “punk rock” of whatever they’re doing? Punk is often seen as having more integrity than other forms of music, but that’s not the whole story. As Iain Ellis noted in a smart essay last year in PopMatters, “more than any other music genre before it or since, punk is—first and foremost—a performing art.”

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