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What’s Old Is New Again— Which Is Often ( But Not Always ) Nice BINELE is the story of a young boy who cannot accept a world where joys are fleeting and hardships are ordinary. Guided by Eliyahu, Binele wanders from his home through dangers and delights in search of dos land fun eybikn yon- FICTION / CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Finding (Yiddish) Neverland
FROM The Origins of Totalitarianism to Eichmann in Jeru- salem , Hannah Arendt’s impact on 20th-century intellectual life is hard to overstate. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt was a philosopher, activist, and political theorist who drew on figures like Plato and Immanuel Kant, while also engag- ing with, and often challenging, contemporaries including Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Bertolt Brecht. NON-FICTION / BIOGRAPHY Uncomfortably Relevant?
tev (The Land of Endless Holiday). First published in 1940, Binele emerged from an era in children’s literature that was fierce- ly protective of the goodness and ideal- ism of youth. Authors whose own inno- cence had floundered on the shoals of the 20th-century built Neverland, Narnia, and the Hundred Acre Wood: worlds that could be eternal havens for childhood. That sense of longing, a courageous and sometimes melancholic grasping for a better world, is at the heart of Binele . Like so much Yiddish era in children’s literature that was fierce ly protective of the goodness and ideal ism of youth. Authors whose own inno
Incorporating both newly discovered and previously overlooked archival ma- terial, Thomas Meyer promises to paint a politically urgent picture of the schol- ar’s life and legacy. Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism—especially how ordi- nary people become complicit in systems
HANNAH ARENDT: A LIFE OF THE MIND
BINELE B.J. Bialostotzky Translated by Ruth Murphy Ben Yehuda Press June 15
Thomas Meyer Penguin Press August 11
literature, it is suffused with Jewish folklore, yearnings for a lost past and redemptive future, and the highest ideals of the Yiddish socialist milieu in which B.J. Bialostotzky wrote. Translated for the first time by Ruth Murphy, this bilingual edition confronts jaded modern readers with the idea that a better world may be just beyond the horizon, if we only have the courage to make the journey. Zachary Kauffman
of domination — grew from her experience with the rise of Nazism in Europe and her exile in America. In an era marked by rising concern about authoritarianism— Origins saw headline-making sales increases after Donald Trump was first elected in 2016 — interest in her work is higher than it has been in decades. Sophia Hershfield
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