"[...]#NicholasLemann’s terrific, researched account of his #Louisiana family’s #history in #America and his own #Jewish evolution lands at an important time for American #Jews. Returning is the #Lemann family story of #assimilation and material success in America, and the #author’s engagement in middle age of rich Jewish observance. It is told with #historical rigor but also #novelistic detail. Don’t think of this as a Jewish #book, but as an American #story with relevance beyond the 2 percent who call themselves Jewish. It is a case study in how, in a free country, #Americans choose to wear their #religious and #ethnic identities, and how the majority culture also influences, even bludgeons, those decisions."

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/11/the-return-of-the-native/

"#Returning, #NicholasLemann’s eloquent, achingly honest account of life within a tightly knit #German-#Jewish subculture whose collective response to #antisemitism was to fixate on fitting in with #gentiles. So axiomatic was the #NewOrleans community’s #assimilationism, and so profound its disdain for Eastern #European #Jews, that #Lemann never tasted lox until after he left home for college. And yet, well into adulthood, Lemann reevaluated, and rejected, the tradeoffs of his family forebears, in favor of a #kosher home, membership in a #minyan and #Shabbat observance.

Hence the #book’s title. Hence, too, its element of surprise: This deeply personal story is not what you might expect from Lemann, a practitioner of cool-headed “neoliberal” policy #journalism in its 1980s heyday, who went on to become a #NewYorker staff #writer, dean of the #Columbia #Journalism School and #author of four books on U.S. political and social #history."

https://momentmag.com/book-review-returning-lemann/

“I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

https://forward.com/culture/books/813970/returning-a-search-for-home-across-three-centuries-nicholas-lemann-new-orleans-jewish-history/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

O que está enfraquecendo Camilo Santana não é a crítica do campo educacional, mas o servilismo com o ‘centrão da educação’... Leia mais em https://www.cartacapital.com.br/opiniao/a-direita-empresarial-rifa-o-ministro-da-educacao/

#mec #CamiloSantana #IzoldaCela #TodosPelaEducação #Lemann

Jorge Paulo #Lemann, empresário que quebrou a #Americanas, vai comandar 6,6 bilhões do governo para #Escolas -

terrabrasilnoticias.com/2023/0…
Via Terra Brasil Noticias - #Dinheiro #Educação -
foi alocada em um conselho q define parte dos cerca de R$ 6,6 bilhões destinados à conexão no ensino público -