Published on November 26th, 2009 by Malachi
I found an entry on Facebook about an hour ago, from a friend and poet Marguerite Maria Rivas: it went something like this:
“This is an article well worth reading, a response to El Museo del Barrio’s use of the word
in their recent poetry presentation, “Spic up and Speak out”
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So –I looked up the article.
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Published on November 25th, 2009 by Malachi
There was an interesting piece in the NYTimes Tuesday about a new book, “The Invention of the Jewish People”, by Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University. It’s been a best-seller in Hebrew in Israel for the last several months, and now just published here. (I think I got the title right.)
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The NYT piece was [...]
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Published on November 10th, 2009 by Malachi
As mentioned, I am republishing a letter I wrote about The Berlin Wall coming down, twenty years ago. I may annotate it in one or two places, but –it pretty much explains itself.
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Back then, I used to send out an End-of-Year letter to all my Stone Street Press customers. I hope you enjoy it.
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“DEAR FRIEND [...]
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