Wagering That Israel Won’t Go to War, Hamas Continues Its Attacks
But Jerusalem is determined not to fall into Hamas’s trap.
August 24, 2020
A Great Essayist, Critic, and Scholar Evaluates the Real, and Imagined, Lessons of the Holocaust
In memoriam.
Edward Alexander, a professor emeritus of English literature and incisive writer on a wide variety of Jewish topics, died last weekend. He was the author of sixteen books, the last of which, The Jews against Themselves, was reviewed in Mosaic here. Alexander’s own reflections on the literary critic Lionel Trilling’s “Jewish problem” can be read here. Of Alexander’s many reviews and essays in Commentary, among the most outstanding are his investigation of “Liberalism and Zionism,” his devastating takedown of the career of Edward Said, and, excerpted here, his reflection on the supposed lessons of the Holocaust (1993):
August 24, 2020
Now Is the Time for Britain to Join the U.S. in Sanctioning Iran
Independent of the EU, it can craft its own human-rights policy.
Germany’s Unexpected Turn against the Boycott-Israel Movement
The rise and fall of BDS.
A Great Essayist, Critic, and Scholar Evaluates the Real, and Imagined, Lessons of the Holocaust
In memoriam.
Theodor Herzl’s Unbounded Simple Faith in the Rightness of His Cause
Taking stock of a great Jewish leader.