זשאַבע-זיללאַ<p>"The short horizon is at least partly because Denby — who was the longtime film critic as well as staff <a href="https://babka.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> at the New Yorker — has chosen to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/write" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>write</span></a> about the lives of iconic figures who were active while he was a professional writer. One of them, Brooks, is even still alive, aged 98, at the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a>’s publication. But the claustrophobic constriction and end of the Golden Age goes to illustrate how, despite the brightness with which Brooks, Bernstein, Mailer, Friedan, and others, shone, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> Golden Age was frighteningly short-lived.</p><p>For Denby, the lesson is that American <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> need to display assertive pride in the face of political tribulations."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/books/710758/david-denby-eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/books/7107</span><span class="invisible">58/david-denby-eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer/</span></a></p>