With an open race for the White House awaiting us in 2028, how will the new wave of campaign autobiographies fit into this mixed stack of self-examiners and self-promoters? ...
When bishops and rabbis excoriated necromancers it was more a question of keeping that magical talent in clerical hands than one of efficacy. ...
Reading Joanna Olczak-Ronikier’s book about her family, I was reminded of my first morning in Poland on a reporting assignment in 1981. ...
What does it say about antisemitism in America that its most violent outrage is not widely remembered, caused no deaths and had some consequences that were arguably positive? ...
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times. ...
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions. ...
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham. ...
The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach. ...
The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews ...
Noah Feldman’s "To Be A Jew" Today offers readers from many branches of the Jewish family tree a glimpse of other boughs and limbs and what their close and distant cousins in Jewishness make of life in the family. ...
The rise of Volodymyr Zelensky from comic improv-artist-turned-movie-star, to wealthy producer, to wartime leader of a besieged Ukraine is improbable enough to invite hyperbole. ...
What becomes of the national leader deemed guilty, but whose popularity is such that punishing him would risk political upheaval or a “lost cause” movement ? Two books, focused on a historic trial, seek to answer the question. ...