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What Awaits Israel in Space: A Discussion
By Andrew Koss, Arthur HermanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Andrew N. Koss, a senior editor of Mosaic, is writing a book about the Jews of Vilna during World War I.
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Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Jewish Studies against the Jews
By Andrew KossAs America's universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?
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The Best Books of 2023, Part II
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan Silver, Rabbi Meir SoloveichikFeaturing fears, fates, burdens of power, memory wars, Sabbath days, Russian writers and timeless questions, years of upheaval, Japanese Jews, and more.
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The Presence of Peretz: A Discussion with Ruth Wisse and Andrew Koss
By Andrew KossCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Sarah Rindner, Jonathan SilverFeaturing wars, peacemakers, two cultures, pogroms, plays, four ages, wild problems, caves, magic, letters, American conservatives, liberal parents, radical children, and more.
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How World War I Changed the Course of American Zionism
By Allan Arkush, Andrew KossCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Orthodoxy’s Cancel Culture
By Andrew KossThe recent decision to stop selling the books of a disgraced Orthodox children’s author reflects a pre-liberal sensibility worth recovering.
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Israel’s Ukraine Problem, and America’s
By Andrew KossThe Jewish state has been criticized this week for not standing up for Ukraine against Russia. It would probably like to, but its hands have been tied by its own closest ally.
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The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
By Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Moshe Koppel, Eli SpitzerFour more of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring two Ruths, passengers, Lincoln, Verdun, chief rabbis, Jewish Montreal, sweet spots, a fortress, and more.
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Yuri Slezkine’s Undiscriminating Eye
By Andrew KossHow a much-lauded historian with a genius for identifying similarities—but no eye for differences—misreads Jewish history.
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What Does the Purim Story Have to Do with Righteous Gentiles?
By Andrew KossPrecious little, you would think. But actually, thanks to one figure in the story, quite a lot.
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How to Defend Nationalism, and How Not to
By Andrew KossDefective history and some untenable key distinctions mar a brilliant, necessary, and much-discussed new book.
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Do the Ultra-Orthodox Censor Historical Truth?
By Andrew KossA new book explains, and over-explains, why ultra-Orthodox authorities resort to Photoshop.
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Fresh Light on Life within the Walls of the Warsaw and Łódź Ghettos
By Andrew KossEyewitness reportage from Poland helps explain the Holocaust better than a shelf of well-researched histories.
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Busting the Shtetl Myth
By Andrew KossWhat you think you know about Jewish life in Eastern Europe is wrong, argues a fascinating (but problematic) new book.
