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The Nazarene by Sholem Asch: Portraying the Jewish Jesus
Sunday, November 8, 2026 10 am-Noon Pacific Special Pop-Up Talk - Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak on "The Nazarene in Literary and Historical Context" Sunday, December 20, 2026 10 am-Noon Pacific Scheduled Book Discussion of "The Nazarene" Become a subscriber to the Yiddish Shmoozers (In Translation) at www.yidlit.com to receive the ZOOM link for these events and other announcements "Troubled all his life by what he regarded as the senseless dichotomy between Judaism and Christianity,
The Glatstein Chronicles: Prophesy? History? Memoir? Journalism? Ethnography?
Sunday, October 18, 10 am to Noon, Pacific time Subscribe to the Yiddish Shmoozers (In Translation) for updates and Zoom link Scroll to bottom for historian Michael Nutkiewicz's thought questions Yiddish scholar and writer Dara Horn calls The Glatstein Chronicles a work of prophesy, a forecast of doom for the Jews of Poland and Yiddish culture. This quasi-mystical characterization of Glatstein's book by the author of the novel The World to Come is apposite. But Horn's view gl
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