The Wandering Star of Yiddish Lit: Debora Vogel was a brilliant multilingual poet and aesthete who is best known as the muse of Bruno Schulz

Click Here to Read: The Wandering Star of Yiddish Lit: Debora Vogel was a brilliant multilingual poet and aesthete who is best known as the muse of Bruno Schulz. But her work deserves a reading—in German, Polish, Hebrew, and especially Yiddish By Mersiha Bruncevic on the Tablet website on August 13, 2019.

Debora Vogel.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Alas, poor Hamlet

Click Here to Read: Alas, poor Hamlet — now presumed to be overweight
Our obsession with obesity extends to Shakespeare — with a literal reading suggesting the Prince of Denmark was decidedly stout by Paul Levy on the Spectator website on August 3, 2019.

Portrait of Hamlet, oil on canvas, by Boston artist William Morris Hunt, executed about 1864.