The Jewish Century, New Edition Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura Longlisted for the 2013 Women's

Longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction

Robin and his wife

with splinters of jewel-toned triangles and bold black-and-white parallelograms that interlock with one another on square canvases

and the other arts

a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time

The Jewish Century, New Edition Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura Longlisted for the 2013 Women'sThis masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to the modern world so well that they have become models of what it means to be modern. While focusing on the drama of the Russian Jews, including migr s and their