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- The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
- I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
- The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to…
- The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation…
- I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with…
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