Josh Lambert


Articles by Josh Lambert

Obscene Recommendations

Some of the literary works I deal with in Unclean Lips are relatively well-known—Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1935) and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), for ...

Is “Schmuck” a Dirty Word?

One of the points I make in my book is that what’s dirty in Yiddish isn’t always dirty in English, and vice ...

Can We Print “Motherfucker” Here?

There’s a little experiment I’d like to try, knowing that this blog post will be published by the Jewish Book ...

How Did You Come to Write That Book, Anyway?

It’s a completely reasonable question, though generally people have been asking it a little shyly: “Why did you want to ...

From the Academy: Modern Hebrew Literature

Miryam Segal is Assistant Professor in Hebrew in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at ...

From the Academy: Holocaust Studies

Avinoam J. Patt serves as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Hartford, and ...

From the Academy: Mysticism and Philosophy

Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where he teaches ...

From the Academy: Sociology

Samuel Heilman serves as a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York and ...

From the Academy: Law

Suzanne Last Stone serves as University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at the Cardozo School of Law at ...

From the Academy: Musicology

Judah Cohen serves as The Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and as an Assistant Professor of Jewish ...