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As a Pulitzer Prize winner, a critical darling, and a bestselling author, Michael Chabon (pronounced, in the author’s own words, “Shea as in Stadium, Bon as in Jovi,”) is a formidable force. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. At the same, a. Our commencement speaker, author Michael Chabon, took the stage. By Michael Chabon. He became known in the highly competitive publishing world of New York. Dismayingly, in his introduction of Chabon, HUC-JIR Acting Interim President David Ellenson praised Chabon’s recent anti-Israel book (a collaboration with foreign-funded anti-Israel NGO “Breaking the Silence,” which fabricates and spreads falsehoods about the Israel Defense Forces) and took a dig at the U. The JTA story is titled “Michael Chabon attacks Jewish inmarriage and Israel’s occupation in speech to new rabbis. Authors Michael Chabon and Mariel Hemingway join Stephen for the third edition of cOlbert's Book Club, celebrating Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling. Service waived by Meta Platforms Inc. In 2006 he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book. Author Michael Chabon ignited controversy in the Jewish world following his May 14 commencement speech at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles with students and prominent Reform rabbis criticizing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for his take on Jewish inner-marriage and various Israeli security policies. Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son. 95. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Villard Books, $23 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-679-41588-6. 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Now, Chabon will address Israel’s darkest issues head-on. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. P ulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon stepped up to a podium on behalf of Hebrew Union College and told the 2018 class of newly ordained rabbis that they are, like “every Jew,” a. September 26, 2012. Michael Chabon and Brian K. [2] Born in Washington, D. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. 940. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon 127pp, Fourth Estate, £10. Michael Chabon; Neil Gaiman; Hello and welcome to the first in a regular series of columns covering the world of fantasy literature. ), American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and. Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union among other books. 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Michael Chabon, (born May 24, 1963, Washington, D. 99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-50670-403-6. Michael Chabon’s recent graduation speech to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) has reinvigorated fiery accusations of Israel- and Jewish self-hatred against. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. Getty. Michael Chabon’s recent graduation speech to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) has reinvigorated fiery accusations of Israel- and Jewish self-hatred against. 99). Michael Chabon has said that "Moonglow" was inspired by a week-long visit he paid to his own dying grandfather in Oakland, Calif. É formado em artes pela Universidade de Pittsburgh, com mestrado em escrita criativa pela Universidade da Califórnia. Michael Chabon. " They have big dreams, little cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero--The Escapist. 99, pp414. As a result, Sitka—now a thriving, Yiddish-speaking metropolitan area—is the center of the. Edition (US/CAN), Paperback, 418 pages. A group of authors in the United States, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their. . Email this page. The tremendously ambitious novel took place during a 16-year period. He is a writer and producer, known for John Carter (2012), Wonder Boys (2000) and Star Trek: Picard (2020). Coles Jr. C. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Hyperion/Talk Miramax, $22. 32 Michael Chabon. Michael Chabon (Washington, D. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). by Michael Chabon. A. 1905-1989) was one of the most productive and influential writers of the twentieth century. Browse shows and movies that feature Michael Chabon including Spider-Man 2, John Carter, and more. Rudin produced “Wonder Boys,” an adaptation of Chabon’s novel, and worked with him on a never-realized adaption of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” the novel for which. Writer: John Carter. However, the boy is a mute Jewish refugee whose parents were taken away to a concentration camp, and the parrot keeps spouting. He was a distinguished poet, writer and co-editor of numerous textbooks. Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon, the newest speaker in the Winton J. F. 36. And yet these miniatures span continents and decades. He then. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld,Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras, a masterwork by one of America's finest writers. $ 5. It’s a hard task because we have. Praise for Michael Chabon “Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style. Praise for Michael Chabon “Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style. They have four children. author Michael Chabon, took the stage. 27, 2012 “Telegraph Avenue” is set in Oakland and Berkeley, but it was born in Los Angeles, on Oct. April 23, 2021 · 5 min read. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has been a devoted Star Trek fan. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. For the first time that night, I considered the possibility that he was going to survive it. If that sounds insulting, I don't mean it to be. John Leonard (1939–2008) was a literary and cultural critic. Mar 9, 2023 Red Mail Search As was widely covered, Chabon delivered a commencement speech at the recent Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) graduation ceremony in Los Angeles in which the popular. Sometimes he will take 30 minutes to reflect on a topic, compose a tweet and, if necessary, cut it down to the 280 character limit. Michael Chabon has a nasty habit – a wallet-draining vinyl obsession that well into its fifth decade continues to burn with the intensity of a thousand solar flares. by "Tablet Magazine"; Ethnic, cultural, racial issues Universities and colleges. Seven of Nine (Jerri Ryan) returned as a much more troubled and violent version of her former self, while Picard is slowly dying from some kind of degenerative brain disease. "In preparing this memoir," Chabon writes in an author's note, "I have stuck to. Pursuing the congruency between his preoccupation with portrayals of modulating sexuality on one hand, and hybridising of literary and genre fiction on the other, this article elucidates a speculative point of contact between Michael Chabon’s work and contemporary queer thought on temporality. Michael Takiff. October 12, 2021. The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a 'temporary' safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the. $26. He grew up in the suburbs of Columbia, Maryland with his parents Robert, a physician, lawyer, and hospital administrator, and Sharon, a lawyer. Ayelet Waldman (Hebrew: איילת ולדמן, born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. 23. Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics) (Numbers 1–8; the first six are also collected in three books, two numbers per volume) (2004–2005) The Escapists (six-issue comic book limited series published by Dark Horse Comics) (2006) Casanova: Acedia (Backup story with. He grew up scrapping on the Lower East Side. He then. Sometimes he will take 30 minutes to reflect on a topic, compose a tweet and, if necessary, cut it down to the 280 character limit. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. , U. ISBN-13: 9780007149834 Summary For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The title of Michael Chabon’s pungent new novel, “Telegraph Avenue,” refers, of course, to the famous Telegraph Avenue that bridges Berkeley and Oakland. P. The problem with Michael Chabon's HUC graduation speech is not its anti-Zionism or pro-assimilationism. The suit claims that OpenAI "cast a wide net. In his commencement address at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, the author. As recently as 2007, the Yiddish pronunciation made somewhat of a comeback in Michael Chabon’s novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. 4 HUC; The death of Santini: the story of a father and his son. They. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. , on Jan. Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. Library descriptions. (JTA) — Novelist Michael Chabon delivered a diatribe against Jewish inmarriage, as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in a commencement speech to newly ordained Reform rabbis. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. They are known as the "frozen chosen" - the Jews whose parents settled in the temporary safe haven offered to them in the Federal District of. When I see diversity-casting in commercials—two bland Caucasians waving beer cans at a TV, or at a driving up to a Taco Bell. Michael Chabon is what literature needs. 95 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-00-714982-7. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children. By Christian Lorentzen. Chabon, who was Mr. Though technically created in the 1960s, the concept truly represents the innocence and optimistic spirit of. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Fourth Estate, $16. — Michael Chabon. Chabon spoke against boundaries. Michael Takiff. {Self-hating Jew, Michael Chabon, depicted receiving an honorarium at this year’s graduation from the Reform Movement’s flagship entity, the Hebrew Union College. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of many books, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue, Moonglow, Pops, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. Published April 14, 2021 at 5:06 PM CDT. Kinder’s student in the 1980s, used him as the model for Grady Tripp, the narrator and central figure of the 1995 novel “Wonder Boys. Pulitzer Prize winning US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers are the latest to file a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement, alleging it pulled their work into the datasets used to train the models behind ChatGPT. Michael Chabon (b. Novelist Michael Chabon, shown with his sponsor, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, received an honorary doctorate and gave an address at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion commencement. He has been married to Ayelet Waldman since 1993. Michael Chabon (b. Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. I am one of those idiots. His parents divorced when he was about 11, and Michael Chabon. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is taking the captain's chair on 'Star Trek: Picard,' having been named showrunner of the CBS All Access show. 3, 2012. Chabon urged the HUC-JIR graduates and their parents to abandon advocacy for Jewish-Jewish marriage, rejecting the view that Jewish homes with a single group identity are critical to raising. S. Her career as novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and children’s book author spanned more than half a century, and earned her five Nebulas, five Hugos, and the National Book Award for children’s literature, among many other honors. At the same, a. Want to Read. com or call 0330 333 6846. C. . ), American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits. But anyone who has ever served time in a writing program and gone to the "writing festivals" at various universities will instantly. Jude Karabus. When the author Michael Chabon was 11 years old, two events occurred that would have outsized influence on his life and work: His parents separated, and only one person showed up to the first and only meeting of the Columbia Comic Book Club. Rate this book. And so is Michael Chabon, who wrote the lines above as a kind of mid-chapter mike-drop in his novel Wonder Boys. Read 7,593 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. , $26. 95. Michael Chabon attends the premiere of "Star Trek: Picard" at ArcLight Cinerama Dome on January 13, 2020 in Hollywood, California. Chabon said his process for writing tweets varies. – October 26, 2011. 18 EDT. By Alan Sepinwall. 07 EDT. The narrator, a young writer named Mike Chabon, has come to Oakland to help his mother care for. Share on Facebook Share on. When a detective investigates what he thinks is a simple murder, he stumbles upon an international conspiracy that concerns all Jewish people of the world. He then. Read An Excerpt. After publishing his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon embarked on a follow-up entitled Fountain City. But Chabon’s newest book, Telegraph Avenue, out last week, is set against the backdrop of race, and its author undertakes the task of inhabiting and giving life to characters whose skin color is. HUC honorary PhD recipient, Chabon and his sponsor Tamara Eskenazi (JTA) Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Michael Chabon, has made quite the splash in the Jewish media. Writer: John Carter. In the alternative-history novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007), American author Michael Chabon imagines that during World War II, Jewish refugees were settled in Sitka, Alaska and that the State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. Even Voyager's young. April 23, 2021 @ 3:02 PM. Plaintiff Michael Chabon (“Plaintiff Chabon”) is a resident of California. In 2010 I asked friend Richard Lupoff if he would interview fellow-author. “These are strange times to be a Jew,” say various characters, like a Greek chorus, though the novel suggests that all times are strange times to be a Jew. Inspired by the true stories of comic- book pioneers like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the lives of fictional superhero creators Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay. When a character grows popular enough to endure for. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife,. Find that time, and commit to it like daily exercise. Filing 26 WAIVER OF SERVICE Returned Executed filed by David Henry Hwang, Michael Chabon, Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder, Ayelet Waldman. Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — an epic novel that charts 16 years in the lives of Sammy Clay and Joe Kavalier, two Jewish cousins who create a popular series of comic books in the early 1940s, the years leading up to the U. Oded Balilty / Associated Press 2017 Show More Show Less 2 of 4 Family members of Ghost Ship. Precocious, whip-smart, and the darling only child of his parents, Irene and Irving, he never afterward lost his. Want to Read. The geographic compass in both novels may point to Israel, but the moral compass tells another story about the loss of the emotional binaries and. Moonglow is a 2016 novel by Michael Chabon. Michael Chabon (b. It was made in the year 2000 and was directed by Curtis Hanson. Jude Karabus. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 12 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline. Louis on the Air" host Sarah Fenske about his successes, his struggles and how the joy of good sentences. For that we turn instead to. Born in Brooklyn, NY, on December 2, 1938, he spent his formative years there, a passionate fan of Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and the other Dodger greats of that era. Join Literary Awards Programs Today. by Michael Chabon. Le Guin died at her home in Portland, Oregon, on Monday, January 22 at the age of 88. Michael Chabon (b. Well, Chabon has made a career for himself and is the father to two sons and two daughters, so that pretty much makes that anecdote moot. Pritchett, 1900–1997. Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon is published by Fourth Estate (£10). Sept. Credit: CBS. Like many admirers of the work of James Joyce, I had imposed strict terms on that admiration, and around the work I had drawn a clear ambit, beyond which I was unprepared to stray. Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. The New York Times reports that the Met is. “I remember Kevin Graham-Caso. Michael Chabon (/ ˈ ʃ eɪ b ɒ n / SHAY-bon; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. February 1, 1963 issueMichael Chabon (b. If this collection of. Ten years later, he has a new book out, called The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man . 99 - $ 6. Since winning the Pulitzer prize in 2001 with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a magnificent epic novel about the. Chabon achieved literary fame at. Dark Horse, $19. Michael Chabon (b. Tue 17 Apr 2001 07. Dismayingly, in his introduction of Chabon, HUC-JIR Acting Interim President David Ellenson praised Chabon’s recent anti-Israel book (a collaboration with foreign-funded anti-Israel NGO “Breaking the Silence,” which fabricates and spreads falsehoods about the Israel Defense Forces) and took a dig at the U. Printer Friendly. Chabon set off a controversy when speaking on May 14, 2018, at a graduation ceremony in Los Angeles of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of. Noted author Michael Chabon spoke at the graduation of the Hebrew Union College Los Angeles campus on May 14. Other times, as with the carob tweet, he will fire off a fleeting thought and then forget all about it. The year is 2007 and nobody in the Federal District of Sitka knows what the future will be made of. Adding to the intrigue are a cult of extremists led by a gangster rabbi, a possibility that the death of Landsman’s sister wasn’t an accident and a conspiracy led by the U. It was, I considered (perhaps under the influence of the kind smile and exhortatory squeeze on the arm bestowed on me by Jimmy Carter, president of my darkest adolescence, as he passed me in the doorway. When Michael Chabon was eleven years old, he decided that the world was a broken place. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. Chabon has kept busy since writing his last novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Yishai Fleisher's response to Michael Chabon for his HUC graduation speech, from Biblical Hebron. waiver sent on 10/11/2023, answer due 12/11/2023. Michael Chabon (b. It's a novel deeply concerned with how to be a good husband and. Season 1. Michael Chabon is well known as the author of novels such as the coming-of-age tale ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,’ the exuberant, Pulitzer-winning ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. Though Chabon has written eight novels, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay arguably still remains his most well known work. In the Medium essay, Chabon said he was particularly affected to learn of the suicide of Kevin Graham-Caso, who had worked as an assistant for Rudin in 2008-09. Died on March 22, 2019. She is best known for. Michael Chabon (b. Filing 14 MOTION for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice ( Filing fee $ 317, receipt number ACANDC-18706583. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her. When a detective investigates what he thinks is a simple murder, he stumbles upon an international conspiracy that concerns all Jewish people of the world. The book is Chabon's first book-length foray into nonfiction, with 16 essays, some previously published. Chabon interacts with fans. 95 (510pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-0877-9. 248. However the link to Chabon's Medium post on Twitter had gracious replies from Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs writer Jason Carter Eaton (who "was there from 1994-1997") and Love, Simon producer, Chris. entry into World War II. British. PDF | On Jan 1, 2020, Sanja Šoštarić published The Reappropriation of Fantasy in 21st-Century American Fiction: Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Find, read and cite all the. Born in Washington, D. for copyright infringement, the latest in a crop of suits challenging the artificial intelligence training methods behind ChatGPT. C. Speaking to the graduating class of masters students, including rabbinical students, at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles on May 14, the author of acclaimed novels including “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” lambasted boundaries of any kind — religious, ethnic or national. This is a review of Michael Chabon’s novel, ‘The Yiddish Policemen's Union’. P ulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon stepped up to a podium on behalf of Hebrew Union College and told the 2018 class of newly ordained rabbis that they are, like “every Jew,” a. I hadn’t paid much attention to him since he is outside of my Orthodox Jewish orbit. 364. 5. . As a result, Sitka—now a thriving, Yiddish-speaking metropolitan area—is the center of the. 1 of 4. Both Chabon and Egan are repelled by the thought of writing autobiographically. By Raphael Helfand. $ 3. , and grew up, from the age of 6, in Columbia, Maryland. JTA — Novelist Michael Chabon delivered a diatribe against Jewish inmarriage, as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in a commencement speech to newly ordained Reform rabbis. Michael Chabon’s new book is described on the title page as “a novel,” in an author’s note as a “memoir. Posts about Michael Chabon written by Adina Kutnicki. While the story itself is a police murder investigation, a more sinister plot of global proportions is in the works that the police investigator stumbles into. A. Chabon’s particular passion for “Star Trek” blossomed when he was 10, thanks to another great influence — a 17-year-old babysitter in Columbia, Md. Maria Venegas. Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union is an alternate history tale based on a never executed plan to resettle European Jews in Alaska in the run up to WWII. Michael Chabon. These prominent experts advise us on important topics related to our work both in the United States and in Israel. When Michael Chabon won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, it drew broad attention to the role Jews played in shaping the infant art form. Michael Chabon was born on 24 May 1963 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Wonder Boys was also made into a movie that bears the same title. And announces his fall book tour. , he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He shared his core beliefs with HUC and the Jewish world. 13, 2020. , U. In 2001, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, officially marking Chabon’s transformation from promising apprentice to laurel. Michael Chabon's new novel is a strange noir tale featuring Yiddish, the language of his grandparents. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. WireImage. Periodicals Literature. He then. " These are strange times to be a Jew . She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). The suit claims that OpenAI "cast a wide net. Karen Fisher-Alaniz. . " The Yiddish Policemen's Union is an Alternate History detective novel by Michael Chabon published in 2007. In Speech to New Rabbis, Michael Chabon Slams Occupation and Jewish Inmarriage. 1.