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April 16, 2013 - Emily Neie

Morris Dickstein to discuss Commentary magazine

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Commentary magazine, Irving Howe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish history, literature, Morris Dickstein, Norman Mailer, Norman Podhoretz, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Author Morris Dickstein presents the lecture “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s” this Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center. In 2011, Commentary magazine donated its archive to the Center, and the collection is now open for research. Founded in November 1945, shortly after World… read more

February 9, 2012 - Alexandra Herzog

Fellows Find: Finding humanity in the Isaac Bashevis Singer correspondence

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Alma Singer, correspondence, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish studies, literature, Nobel Prize

Alexandra Tali Herzog, PhD candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2011 on a dissertation fellowship to investigate the Isaac Bashevis Singer collection. In her dissertation, she examines the interplay between demonology, libertinism, and religion in Singer’s work. Drawing… read more

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