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Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter taught as Professor of English first at Yeshiva College, and thereafter at Baruch College, CUNY. He also served as Visiting Professor at New York University, New York Institute of Technology,, City College and Bar Ilan University. He was simultaneously active, during those years, as a practicing rabbi. This article, which appears in issue 7 of Conversations--the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals--was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bernard Lander, Founder and President of Touro College.

I always believed in Dizzy, that old Jew. He saw into the future.
Winston Churchill

( A review essay on Benjamin Disraeli, by Adam Kirsch. New York: Schocken, 2008.)

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Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter taught as Professor of English, first at Yeshiva College, and thereafter, at Baruch College, CUNY. He also served as Visiting Professor at New York University, New York Institute of Technology, City College, and Bar Ilan University. He was simultaneously active, during those years, as a practicing rabbi. This article appears in issue 6 of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals.

I. The Native

If by chance, a curious stranger were possibly permitted to enter David Mamet's private study, he would suddenly find himself facing, among an assortment of general works, copies of his host's many publications, all reflecting his catholic interests and tastes. Those publications consist of 36 plays and five collections of them; six screenplays; three novels; 13 prose works; three children's books; 15 film scripts; 21 critical and biographical studies of his life; and, undoubtedly, the current and past issues of the Mamet Quarterly, which dealt critically with his life and works.

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