Monthly Essay ·
The Many Lives of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
By Walter LaqueurBorn obscurely in turbulent times, the notorious text describing a Jewish conspiracy to enslave humanity lives on even today. Why?
Walter Laqueur
Walter Laqueur is the author of, among other books, Weimar, A History of Terrorism, Fascism: Past, Present, Future, and The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union. His newest book, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, was released in 2015 by Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s.
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Racing Before Hitler
By Walter LaqueurMy memories of athletic life as a Jewish teenager in Germany during the tumultuous 1930s.
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Survival and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
By Walter LaqueurLast month I received two letters that brought back memories of a love story with the Holocaust as background but, for once, not with a tragic ending.
Observation ·
Romain Rolland: Beacon of Light, or Apologist for Evil?
By Walter LaqueurThough he's now largely unknown, for many Europeans of my generation he was the most important writer of our time. Were we right about him?
Observation ·
“Next Year in Birobidzhan!”
By Walter LaqueurIn 1928, a "Jewish autonomous region" was set up in the far east to provide a home for Soviet Jewry. But, as a new book describes, it was no solution at all.
Response ·
Why Were Euroskeptics Ignored?
By Walter LaqueurCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Timothy Snyder: The Newton of the Holocaust?
By Walter LaqueurThe Yale historian's much-lauded new book promises a revolutionary view of the Holocaust. But it misleads more than it enlightens.
Observation ·
Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea
By Walter LaqueurThere's a new national ideology forming in Russia—and "the Jews" play a big part in it.
Observation ·
The Walter Benjamin Brigade
By Walter LaqueurHow an original but maddeningly opaque German Jewish intellectual became a thriving academic industry.
Observation ·
Degenerate Art and the Jewish Grandmother
By Walter LaqueurThe story of the family behind the Nazi-era art trove
Observation ·
Better to be Wrong than Right?
By Walter LaqueurFor some intellectuals, it all depends.
Response ·
Demography is Key
By Walter LaqueurCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
