Iran’s Missile-Cap Offer Is a Sham
Another attempt to dupe the West.
November 14, 2017
The Yiddish Magic Mountain.
In his 1940 Yiddish novel “When Yash Arrived” (available in English as Homecoming at Twilight), the Polish-born American author Jacob Glatstein tells the story of a Polish Jew’s return to the land of his birth from the U.S. Dara Horn recommends the book as a way “to repair the damage done to the American Jewish psyche by hundreds of lousy Holocaust novels and school productions of Fiddler on the Roof.” She writes:
Another attempt to dupe the West.
A Hillel house banned not a critic of Israel, but the country’s deputy foreign minister.
Wiping the slate clean.
The Yiddish Magic Mountain.
The reforms of Hezekiah.
In his 1940 Yiddish novel “When Yash Arrived” (available in English as Homecoming at Twilight), the Polish-born American author Jacob Glatstein tells the story of a Polish Jew’s return to the land of his birth from the U.S. Dara Horn recommends the book as a way “to repair the damage done to the American Jewish psyche by hundreds of lousy Holocaust novels and school productions of Fiddler on the Roof.” She writes:
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