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Tag Archives: Gershom Scholem
and they got their butts kicked
Essence, body and soul. Everything in perfect harmony. And the bad guys got whipped big time. Apparently. But that’s all water under the bridge, even if that H2O is a bit salty with tears. And they really do want the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Jan Victors, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, matisyahu, Pieter Lastman, Purim jewish holiday, purimpalooza, Rabbi Langer San Francisco, Rembrandt, rembrandt the jewish bride, San Francisco Chabad, Van Gogh
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science of fictions of zimzum
Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged aline kominsky, Bob Dylan, David Mairowitz, Drama of Works, Franz Kafka, Frederick Crews, Gershom Scholem, Gnosticism, Greil Marcus, peter kuper, Puppet Kafka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Crumb, Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold
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the golem: oy vay you say
Return of the golem. The problem is not creating these golem, its how to get rid of them. If you don’t kill them off quickly while there is still a bit of moisture left in the clay, they start adapting … Continue reading
fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism
And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin: So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading
perilous exile to zimzum
An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud
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above the law: shadows of angels
Germany using Israeli lawyers to help “repatriate” Kafka manuscripts and literary legacy back to Germany. Keeping the works under lock and key, like incarcerated hostages out of Jozef Fritzl. It should burnish the national brand, used as export propaganda for … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged arnold zweig, Daniel Schmid, David Zane Mairowitz, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Gottfried Helnwein, Hannah Arendt, hans fricke, isaac babel, Judith Butler, justin vicari, kafka manuscripts, louis begley, Milena Jesenska, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Crumb
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hunchbacks : bunches of hunches
To some, stroking the hump of the hunchback insures good luck, like “gobbo” in Italy, the impish man, wanky figure, libidinous, with top hat and hump, a kind of Berlusconi , a devilish little beast, but one with access to … Continue reading
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Tagged alfredo triff, claire fontaine, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, hunchbacks, Marty Feldman, mayer kirshenblatt, Richard Brautigan, Sigmund Freud, Silvio Berlusconi, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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angelus in the midnight hour
from George Steiner: …the thesis whereby it is the ethical and cognitive duty of history, of enacted remembrance, to rescue from oblivion the oppressed, the enslaved, the victims of successful injustice, to bring them back to protesting life out of … Continue reading