Newish and Jewish: the phenomenon of “Jewish Currents”
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Nothing expresses the revitalisation of the American Jewish left more than the relaunched magazine Jewish Currents.
In this interview with its editor Arielle Angel, published in the Nation, Sarah Seltzer explores the big themes that are attracting open-minded diasporic, lefty, under-40 Jews.
Here are a few quotes from Angel:
- People say to us all the time, “I had abandoned my Jewish identity, but I feel like I have a home here.”
- It’s not just about politics, it’s about creating a spirit of intellectual inquiry that veers away from being dogmatic.
- We want to use Jewishness as a way to open onto the world. It has to be a prism with which we view things, and not a way to retreat into ourselves.
This article was originally published by The Nation on Thu 6 Feb 2020. Read the original here.
Newish and Jewish: An Interview With ‘Currents’ Editor Arielle Angel
How a revitalized magazine with its roots in American communism captured the Jewish left
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