Activity

By the time of David Ben Gurion’s proclamation, “Zion” ceased to be a proleptic ideal or symbol and began to be an archaeological site with borders to defend.

Karl Kraus, of decayed, feuilletonistic Vienna

and so defined the rightful Palestinian inhabitants of Palestine apophatically, or by negation, as what they were not.

The two literatures have similar origins: They both began as the tralatitious lore of the peasantry, of the poor and uneducated village and town, as opposed to the city

from high-minded entr’acte harangues