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  • Richard Hamilton, 'The Transmogrifications of Bloom,' 1985, printed by Aldo Crommelynck
    Richard Hamilton, 'The Transmogrifications of Bloom,' 1985, printed by Aldo Crommelynck
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    Leopold Bloom’s Real-Life Model

    The friendship of James Joyce and his student and instructor in Jewish customs, the Italian businessman Ettore Schmitz, better known as the novelist Italo Svevo, gave birth to one of literature’s greatest characters. It also unites the giant of literary modernism with the founder of psychoanalysis.

    byMitchell Abidor
  • (Clockwise from top left: Caricature from Vanity Fair, 1899; photo: William M. Vander Weyde, ca. 1900;  Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin; The Library of Congress, ca. 1910-1915; Britannica; Dreyfus and his family, The Library of Congress.)
    (Clockwise from top left: Caricature from Vanity Fair, 1899; photo: William M. Vander Weyde, ca. 1900;  Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin; The Library of Congress, ca. 1910-1915; Britannica; Dreyfus and his family, The Library of Congress.)
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    Proust and Dreyfus

    In an excerpt from the newly translated Gaslight, by German writer Joachim Kalka, an examination of how the scandal that rocked France bled into European literature

    byJoachim Kalka
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    Happy Bloomsday!

    Celebrating all things Joycean—and Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses

    byElissa Goldstein
  • (Len Small/Tablet Magazine)
    (Len Small/Tablet Magazine)
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    Happy Bloomsday!

    Come celebrate with us tonight

    byMarc Tracy
  • James Joyce.(Wikipedia)
    James Joyce.(Wikipedia)
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    Spring Is a Time for Bloom

    Rosenbaum praises his favorite chapter of ‘Ulysses’

    byMarc Tracy
  • The pinacle of Jewish-Irish culture(printed&bound)
    The pinacle of Jewish-Irish culture(printed&bound)
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    Michael Oren Is Green at Diplomacy

    Israeli Ambassador throws St. Patty party, a terrible idea.

    byDan Klein
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    ‘Ot, Reb Bloom, Vos Makht Ir?’

    ‘Ulysses’ in Yiddish

    byThe Editors
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    A Very Jewish Bloomsday

    Everything you need to know for today

    byMarc Tracy
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    The Strangest Shabbos You’ve Ever Seen

    Blogging Joshua Cohen’s ‘Witz’

    byAri M. Brostoff
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