In Looking to the West, India Is Increasingly Looking toward Israel
Commercial ties are paving the way for a strategic alliance.
January 20, 2023
Elie Wiesel’s Lost Essay about a Great Work of Holocaust Poetry
Poems from the Sea of Death.
Although he is best known today for his writings in English and French, Elie Wiesel also wrote extensively in Yiddish, and was, in Allan Nadler’s words, one of the language’s “great stylists” of the postwar era. Nadler was thus delighted to discover a forgotten 1969 essay by Wiesel on the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever—who, to the Yiddish-reading world of the time, was the undisputed master of Holocaust-survivor literature, and arguably remains the greatest Yiddish poet of all time. Nadler presents a translation of Wiesel’s essay, a review of Sutzkever’s anthology Lider fun yam ha-moves (“Poems from the Sea of Death”):
January 20, 2023
Jordan’s Growing Belligerence toward Israel
Supporting Palestinian lawfare is a useful distraction from economic problems.
Elie Wiesel’s Lost Essay about a Great Work of Holocaust Poetry
Poems from the Sea of Death.
Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Mind
For Lincoln, perpetuating American slavery beckoned the Lord’s wrath.
Autistic Soldiers Find Their Place in the IDF
Not a disability, but an asset.