Jacob Taubes News Today

Her suicide, on the publication of her first novel, made her an icon of doomed femininity, but rediscovered works are revealing a more complex writer.

The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine.

“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”

By drawing on Susan Taubes’s novel “Divorcing,” a recent biography of the rabbi and scholar Jacob Taubes tests the limits of the genre.

From the blog of Renee Garfinkel at The Times of Israel

For those who like to read, the yamim noraʾim and Sukkos provide great opportunities to do that.

The controversial Jewish thinker leads us to see ourselves as we are

Jacob Taubes and the long march through the institutions

Jerry Z. Muller’s “Professor of Apocalypse” tells the story of Jacob Taubes, who is largely forgotten today but was at the center of intellectual life after the war.