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Abraham Socher
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Editor, Jewish Review of Books
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By Jesse Tisch, Akiva Schick, Joseph Epstein, Abraham Socher| Jewish Review of Books@ Free Press 304 pp., $29.99 Simon & Schuster 464 pp., $20.99 Memoir is risky business. Its reputation? Slightly dubious. Its vices? Vanity, indiscretion, omission. Don’t trust it, said Orwell, unless it reveals something shameful. Even then, you might wonder why someone probes their past, poking around in the attic of their psyche. Why not let demons rest? If anyone understands these hazards, it’s Joseph Epstein, a great practitioner and skeptic of personal writing.
By Akiva Schick, Shai Secunda, Abraham Socher| Jewish Review of Books@ In 2004, a Hasidic man with a long black beard came onto Jimmy Kimmel Live! to sing about praising God in a semi-Jamaican accent. Even now, it’s astonishing to watch Matisyahu—bespectacled, black-hatted, and confident—perform his set on late-night television. His reggae beatboxing, dm-da-da-btt-te-taa-tikt, quickly shifts into the yibbio-bo-bums of a Hasidic niggun before he sings, “No matter where I am, bless me with all your light. . . . Let me stop praise your name. . . .
By Jesse Tisch, Akiva Schick, Joseph Epstein, Abraham Socher| Jewish Review of Books@ Free Press 304 pp., $29.99 Simon & Schuster 464 pp., $20.99 Memoir is risky business. Its reputation? Slightly dubious. Its vices? Vanity, indiscretion, omission. Don’t trust it, said Orwell, unless it reveals something shameful. Even then, you might wonder why someone probes their past, poking around in the attic of their psyche. Why not let demons rest? If anyone understands these hazards, it’s Joseph Epstein, a great practitioner and skeptic of personal writing.
Company Info
Jewish Review of Books
The Jewish Review of Books is a quarterly print publication with an active online presence for serious readers with Jewish interests. In our pages, leading writers and scholars discuss the newest books and ideas about religion, literature, culture, and politics, as well as fiction, poetry, and the arts. We are committed to the ideal of the thoughtful essay that illuminates as it entertains. The magazine was launched in 2010 with an editorial board that includes Michael Walzer and Ruth Wisse, Shlomo Avineri and Ruth Gavison. The editor is Abraham Socher. The magazine is funded by the Tikvah Fund, founded by Zalman Bernstein, which also sponsored the Jewish Ideas Daily. The initial press run was 30,000 copies. An affiliate of the fund, Bee.Ideas, LLC, also publishes Mosaic, a magazine launched in June 2013 as the successor to the Jewish Ideas Daily.
Cleveland Heights, United States
+1 877-753-0337
Founded: 2010