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		<title>Revisiting a Kafka classic: The Metamorphosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my dismay, I recently came across some reviews on Amazon that depicted Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as a horror story. It’s also listed in Project Gutenberg with related books in &#8216;horror.&#8217; I can kinda sorta see how someone might &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2010/12/revisiting-a-kafka-classic-the-metamorphosis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mahzor Lev Shalem: first impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, I had the opportunity to daven with the Conservative movement&#8217;s new high holiday prayerbook. A few copies of the Mahzor Lev Shalem were distributed among the crowd at my synagogue over the two-day &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2010/09/mahzor-lev-shalem-first-impressions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Portnoy? I don&#8217;t think so.</title>
		<link>http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2009/04/goodbye-portnoy-i-dont-think-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dara Horn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fairly new &#8216;web exclusive&#8217; article on the Vanity Fair Web site and it talks about the rise of the &#8216;New Yiddishists.&#8217; The terms refers to &#8220;today&#8217;s talented crop of young Jewish writers, such as Nathan Englander, Michael Chabon, &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2009/04/goodbye-portnoy-i-dont-think-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Was Kafka a self-hating Jew? Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/07/was-kafka-a-self-hating-jew-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biographies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on some of the things he said about Jews, certain scholars have called Franz Kafka a Jewish anti-Semite. He said he admired Zionism but was &#8220;nauseated&#8221; by it. He said he&#8217;d like to stuff all Jews (himself included) into &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/07/was-kafka-a-self-hating-jew-really/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A great Web site for literature in translation</title>
		<link>http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/06/a-great-web-site-for-literature-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;d like to file this one under &#39;Web sites you should bookmark.&#39; Over on Bud Parr&#39;s blog, Chekhov&#39;s Mistress, I read a recent entry that discussed several international literary links. And in that post, Parr mentioned the &#8220;ever excellent and &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/06/a-great-web-site-for-literature-in-translation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why book reviews matter</title>
		<link>http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/02/why-book-reviews-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#39;re still wondering why book reviews matter, there&#39;s an excellent piece written by Joan Acocella in the Feb. 4 issue of The New Yorker. The piece itself does not say anything specifically about book reviews or literary criticism. It&#39;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/02/why-book-reviews-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who you calling &#8216;secular?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Washington Post earlier this month, the eminent Jewish history professor Jonathan Sarna (pictured right) praised the PBS documentary &#8220;The Jewish Americans&#8221; for its depiction of Jews as people who landed on these shores a long, long time &#8230; <a href="http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/01/who-you-calling-secular/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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