The art of Stéphane Mandelbaum: “I’m disgusted by what I create”
No, Mandelbaum was not a nice Jewish boy. An artist, criminal and provocateur who lived and died on the fringes. Mitchell Abidor traces the journey...
Mitchell Abidor
Mitchell Abidor is a Brooklyn-born writer, translator and historian. He has published over a dozen books and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books and many other publications.
Articles by Mitchell Abidor
Kafka in America: From Prague to Newark
From the subtle precision of The Metamorphosis to the unfinished enigma of The Castle, the Morgan Library & Museum exhibition on Franz Kafka, illuminates hiss...
When Jews dreamed of New York. About ‘Motl in America’
After having published a review of Motl in America a month ago, Mitchell Abidor returns in his text to this extraordinary tale of Jewish immigration...
The disillusionment of the Israeli left. Interview with Adam Raz
Adam Raz is an Israeli historian. He has published numerous books and articles condemning, in particular, the expulsion of Arabs during the 1948 war and...
About the reaction of the American left
Our collaborator Mitchell Abidor writes here about his anger with a part of his political camp, writing about it, saying: "Blinded by hatred of Israel,...
The Sassoons: the British dream of Iraqi Jews
The Sassoons proclaimed themselves descendants of King David, were described as the "Rothschilds of the East" and spoke both Judeo-Arabic and Hindustani before converting to...
Victor Serge: revolutionary and philosemite
Victor Serge, whose real name is Viktor Lvovitch Kibaltchitch, was born in Brussels in 1890. The man who would become a key figure in the...
Bambi, a Jewish Tale
World famous since its adaptation by Walt Disney, Bambi, A life in the woods, was first a children's story imagined, a century ago, by the...
The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
The enfant terrible of post-war international Jewish philosophy is probably the best way to describe Jacob Taubes. Admired and sought after by all his contemporaries,...
Leopold Bloom: A Jewish Non-Jew
Ulysses is now one hundred years old. James Joyce's novel was published in its original full text in Paris on February 2, 1922. Leopold Bloom...