Making Sense of the Jihad in Nigeria
Not a simple case of Muslims vs. Christians.
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Revisiting Mihail Sebastian’s novel of 1930s Romania.
While many American Jews are surprised that college campuses have become epicenters of hostility toward Jews, the fact would be unremarkable to anyone who had attended a Central European university between the two world wars. Thus it is a fitting time to revisit the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian’s autobiographical novel For Two Thousand Years, first published in 1934 and reviewed by Ruth Wisse in Mosaic in 2017. Ronit Mazovskiy reflects on the narrator’s experiences:
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Revisiting Mihail Sebastian’s novel of 1930s Romania.
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Subscribe NowWhile many American Jews are surprised that college campuses have become epicenters of hostility toward Jews, the fact would be unremarkable to anyone who had attended a Central European university between the two world wars. Thus it is a fitting time to revisit the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian’s autobiographical novel For Two Thousand Years, first published in 1934 and reviewed by Ruth Wisse in Mosaic in 2017. Ronit Mazovskiy reflects on the narrator’s experiences: