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Did this Jewish literary titan have the right idea about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling after all?

Summary by The Forward
The great American Jewish literary critic Harold Bloom, who died in 2019 at the age of 89, notoriously panned the first volume of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels in a review. He did so ostensibly for aesthetic reasons. Since then, Rowling has become a vocal critic of the trans rights movement and recently gloated online after an April 16 U.K. Supreme Court ruling rescinded basic civil rights of trans people, following a court case b…

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The Forward broke the news in on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
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