Judith Shulevitz

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Judith Anne Shulevitz is an American journalist, editor and culture critic. She has been a columnist for Slate, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic.

Career

Shulevitz got her start editing as co-editor of

The New Yorker, The Forward, and many other publications. She is currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic
.

Shulevitz published her first book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (Random House) in 2010. The New Yorker called it "a swift, penetrating book intent on shattering the habits of mindless workaholism,"[3] and The Atlantic called it "gorgeously written."[4] Rebecca Goldstein, in The New York Times, wrote, "True to the tradition she loves, [Shulevitz] displays a reassuring double-mindedness toward almost everything except erudition."[5]

Personal life

Shulevitz is Jewish and graduated from Yale University in 1986, having majored in French. She married Nicholas Lemann in 1999.[6] Lemann is a professor at, and was formerly the dean of, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[7] They have two children.

Books

  • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (Random House, March 2010)

References

  1. ^ Paula Span (1993-05-25). "Lingua Franca, the Magazine of Naked Academia". The Washington Post.
  2. ^ Timothy Egan (1996-04-29). "In the Capital Of Cyberspace, But Far From Capital Politics". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "The Sabbath World". The New Yorker. 21 March 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  4. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (14 May 2010). "Judith Shulevitz on the Radical Idea of the Sabbath". Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Book Review". The New York Times. 2010-03-25.
  6. ^ "Judith Shulevitz, Nicholas Lemann- The New York Times". The New York Times. 1999-11-07. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  7. ^ Arenson, Karen (2003-04-16). "Columbia Names Dean For Its Journalism School". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

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