By Sarina Roffé People often ask me to define the term “Sephardic Jew.” The answer is complicated. No, it does not mean “from Spain,” although that is the commonly understood definition. It also does not mean anyone who is not Ashkenazi. For example, Jews who migrated to...
Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem Doubleday 2013, pp. 384, $27.95 Review by Lydia Kiesling [divider] Born to Be Red Before I began reading Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, I was advised to obtain a copy of Vivian Gornick’s Romance of American Communism for a little crash course on its context. Although the deeply knowledgeable proprietor...