over the fifty-year period of its development
and read hundreds of books about Judaism—all in dogged pursuit of answers to her biggest questions
writing about class stratification
Dear Reyzl and Liana Finck's A Bintel Brief — explore the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds
used their Aryan looks to seduce them
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics Holocaust History over the fifty-year period ofKubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctors son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a selftaught filmmaker and selfproclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubricks Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm,