It is difficult to think about Cohn without going immediately to Trump. It would be incorrect, though, to see them as peas in a pod. Yes, everything from Trump’s bloody rhetoric to his libertine approach to sex to his cavalier attitude toward court orders echoes Cohn’s Way. ...
Jews achieved rights of citizenship, then sometimes saw those rights withdrawn or limited, then sometimes saw them restored. ...
Nefarious plots are foiled by the mastermind Max Spitzkopf, king of detectives, the Jewish Sherlock Holmes. ...
Antisemitism has generated an unusually extensive volume of discourse on its origins, meanings and contours. ...
In this engaging piece of “autofiction,” history, invention, memoir and novel jostle one another in vying for first place. ...
Samantha Ellis' "Always Carry Salt" is a lament for the societies forced to surrender their cultures to a world that will swallow it up. ...
I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition By Yair Mintzker Princeton University Press, 288 pp. For
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Carlin Romano reviews Elise Stefanik's new book about the moral rot and antisemitism inside top universities, plagued by scandal. ...
Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries by Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pp. When he was about the
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Famesick: A Memoir By Lena Dunham Random House, 416 pp. When you hear the name “Lena Dunham,” who do
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“The moment you try to apply the genocide framework to an ongoing conflict, you move from historical analysis into something far more immediate, contested and politically charged.” ...
We feel acutely the longing for connection and continuity along the generations, the questions around the “right” way to honor the dead, fast on Yom Kippur, navigate Christmas or organize a seder or a bris. ...