{"id":142111,"date":"2020-01-15T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=142111"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T18:25:54","slug":"is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Louis Garrel as Professor Bhaer in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week, my parents saw Little Women<\/em>. My mother immediately phoned me. \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d she said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement. I said I didn\u2019t think the facts supported this theory. But several days later, I got an email from her with the subject line \u201cFYI!!!\u201d When I clicked on the link, I saw it was a Forward<\/em> piece by Eve LaPlante<\/a> headed,\u00a0\u201cDiscovering Louisa May Alcott\u2019s Jewish History on Portuguese Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

I knew her game: my mom regarded this as proof that Alcott, apparently proud of her Sephardic ancestry\u2014which, I read, the family credited with some of its dark coloring\u2014had, indeed, written in a sympathetic Jewish foil for Jo. I couldn\u2019t help but suspect that my mother was projecting; just because she had married a Jewish guy didn\u2019t necessarily mean her favorite childhood literary figure had. \u201cI just don\u2019t see the evidence,\u201d I wrote back, not without regret. \u201cBhaer is pretty Christian in the later books. He\u2019s probably a 48er. And fwiw, the actor Louis Garrel isn\u2019t Jewish, I don\u2019t think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook into it!\u201d she wrote back. \u201cYou are the Bhaer detective!\u201d<\/p>\n

I knew what she meant, and my heart sank. You see, a couple of years ago, in these pages, I wrote a five-part investigatio<\/a>n<\/a> of the Little Women<\/em> character Professor Bhaer. Why? I don\u2019t know. There was no peg. There was certainly no clamoring demand. The resulting tell-all did not contain any dramatic reveals. Serial<\/em>, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never fun to reread one\u2019s own work, and less still when the text in question reveals slightly-younger-you to have been some horrible mixture of visibly mad and really boring. But in light of Greta Gerwig\u2019s reimagined Little Women<\/em>, with its truly disruptive interpretation of the Bhaer character, it seemed worth revisiting the subject. At least, according to my mom.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit, I went into the film half skeptical. Louis Garrel, the sloe-eyed wraith of The Dreamers<\/em>, as Bhaer? This seemed like the goofiest Bhaer casting since William Shatner\u2019s glorious 1978 tour-de-force, in which he interpreted the professor as an injection-molded plastic baby doll who talks like a movie Nazi. I assumed that casting a cute, romantically appealing lead was just a sop to viewers. But I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Certainly, Garrel\u2019s smoldering, Beethoven-playing professor has been well-received. As Peter Bradshaw described him in the Guardian<\/em>, \u201cProfessor Friedrich Bhaer, the middle-aged German academic who is to be Jo\u2019s fatherly suitor-slash-mentor in New York, is reinvented as a considerably younger and dishier Frenchman played by Louis Garrel.\u201d Added Samantha Vincenty for O<\/em>, \u201cwith Louis Garrel, Little Women<\/em> finally gave Jo March the hot professor she deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously\u2014deliberately\u2014this Professor Bhaer bears very little resemblance to the character as written. Keep in mind that Alcott\u2019s Bhaer was \u201crather stout \u2026 he hadn\u2019t a really handsome feature in his face, except his beautiful teeth.\u201d He\u2019s also priggish, puritanical, totally asexual, and talks like Goethe put through Google Translate. Gerwig\u2019s Bhaer, on the other hand, is … Louis Garrel. At only thirty-six, he actually seems like a more plausible romantic choice for Jo than the babyish (and only half <\/em>French) Timothee Chalamet as Laurie. Even Garrel\/Bhaer\u2019s negging of Jo\u2019s writing has an air of dickish fifth arrondissement flirtation rather than the fatherly, grieved moral disappointment of Alcott\u2019s text. When Jo refutes his criticism in the film, she\u2019s angry at an equal, not wrestling with father-figure displacement. Basically, in the book we\u2019re given to understand that Bhaer is right. In Gerwig\u2019s movie, it\u2019s not nearly that simple.<\/p>\n

Gerwig clearly understood that, in some way, Alcott didn\u2019t want<\/em> to give Jo March \u201cthe hot professor she deserves\u201d\u2014or, at any rate, if she was forced by publishers to marry off her heroine, just as the movie Jo is told her protagonist must end up \u201cmarried or dead,\u201d she wanted to do it on her own terms, redefining the idea of \u201cromance\u201d and imposing on her impressionable readers a new idea of partnership. Because this decision clearly arose as much from perversity as principle; it\u2019s never really worked on a dramatic level in the original text. Simply put, if Bhaer is cast the way he\u2019s written, the result is depressing and disappointing\u2014just like in the book.<\/p>\n

Gerwig goes meta with her ending. You want romance? says her pragmatic Alcott\/Jo amalgam. Okay, you\u2019ll get it, down to a rom-com dash to the station and a Notting Hill<\/em>\u2013style Greek chorus of supportive family and friends who are way too involved in your personal life. In acknowledging the contrivance, Gerwig frees the viewer up to actually accept the romance. For the viewers\u2014many of whom are braced for this shoehorned-in conclusion to the book and the prior adaptations\u2014it\u2019s curiously freeing. We\u2019re winking at the convention, but having winked, we can enjoy a neatly tied-up happy ending. We don\u2019t have to choose: Jo is launched on her literary career, happily married to someone conventionally attractive, and is the driving financial force behind the idyllic progressive school we see in the movie\u2019s final montage. (Bhaer is seen conducting a diverse orchestra of little girls, looking handsome.) Yes, it\u2019s all a bit much, and Gerwig has shown us we\u2019re in safely cynical hands. But I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who felt free to weep shamelessly.<\/p>\n

There is, throughout, a basic fidelity and affection for the source text, which is just part of why I don\u2019t think Bhaer is Jewish. If you want to be technical about it (and Emily Schneider, at the Jewish Book Council, very much did<\/a>) there are Jews in the Little Women <\/em>universe. Specifically, in the chapter \u201cNew Impressions,\u201d in which Amy, on her Grand Tour, is exposed to the varied folk of the Old World. These include \u201chaughty Eng\u00adlish, live\u00adly French, sober Ger\u00admans, hand\u00adsome Spaniards, ugly Rus\u00adsians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Amer\u00adi\u00adcans.\u201d Then she does some business with a banker named Avigdor. Last of all, Amy encounters \u201cBaron Rothschild\u2019s pri\u00advate sec\u00adre\u00adtary, a large-nosed Jew, in tight boots, [who] affa\u00adbly beamed upon the world as if his master\u2019s name crowned him with a gold\u00aden halo.\u201d So, when it comes to her idealized hero\u2014a sober German\u2014I\u2019m going to go with \u201cNot a Jew,\u201d William Shatner\u2019s incredible performance notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

As for my mom, she\u2019s unconvinced. \u201cThis isn\u2019t over,\u201d she told me cryptically. For everyone\u2019s sakes, I hope it is.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sadie Stein is alive and well and living in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIs Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\"},\"wordCount\":1158,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4-1024x683.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Arts & Culture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\",\"name\":\"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4-1024x683.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00\",\"description\":\"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\",\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sadie Stein\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein","description":"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein","og_description":"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sadie Stein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sadie Stein","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/"},"author":{"name":"Sadie Stein","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9"},"headline":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries","datePublished":"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/"},"wordCount":1158,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4-1024x683.jpg","articleSection":["Arts & Culture"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/","name":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries by Sadie Stein","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4-1024x683.jpg","datePublished":"2020-01-15T18:00:44+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-15T18:25:54+00:00","description":"January 15, 2020 \u2013 \u201cI think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,\u201d my mother said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement, \u201cLook into it! You are the Bhaer detective!\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/littlewomen-4.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/is-professor-bhaer-jewish-and-other-mysteries\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Is Professor Bhaer Jewish, and Other Mysteries"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9","name":"Sadie Stein","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sadie Stein"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142119,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142111\/revisions\/142119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}