Judith Anne Shulevitz is an American

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, editor and culture critic. She has been a

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for ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. She is a contributing writer for ''

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''.

Career

Shulevitz got her start editing as co-editor of ''

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'' with Margaret Talbot. The magazine won a

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for General Excellence under their editorship in 1993. Shulevitz later worked as deputy editor and columnist at ''

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''. She was one of the founding editors of ''

'', the culture editor, and a daily columnist for the magazine. Shulevitz wrote the "Close Reader" column for ''

'' from 2001 through 2003 and wrote and edited for ''

'' from 2011 through 2014. Her essays have also appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', and many other publications. She is currently a contributing writer for ''

''. Shulevitz published her first book, ''The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time'' (Random House) in 2010. ''

'' called it "a swift, penetrating book intent on shattering the habits of mindless workaholism," and ''

'' called it "gorgeously written."

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

, in ''

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'', wrote, "True to the tradition she loves, hulevitzdisplays a reassuring double-mindedness toward almost everything except erudition."

Personal life

Shulevitz is Jewish and graduated from

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in 1986, having majored in French. She married

Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic, the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has be ...

in 1999. Lemann is a professor at, and was formerly the dean of, the

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. They have two children.

Books

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

References

External links

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