When the Iranian Regime Talks about Eliminating Israel
A historical perspective.
October 1, 2015
Enlightenment, Russian-Jewish Style
As told by the author of The Dybbuk.
Shlomo-Zaynvl Rapaport (1863–1920), best known by his pen name S. An-Sky, was a leading figure in the Russian socialist movement, a supporter of Zionism, a great Jewish ethnographer, and the author of the classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk. His novel, Pioneers, about the experience of late-19th-century Russian Jews shedding religious observance to embrace modernity and the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment movement), has recently been rendered into English by Michael R. Katz. Polly Zavadivker writes in her review:
October 1, 2015
No, Western Colonialism Didn’t Cause the Mess in the Middle East
A new book upends conventional wisdom.
Enlightenment, Russian-Jewish Style
As told by the author of The Dybbuk.
A Response to Ann Coulter, and a Personal Reflection on the Jews
“The Jewish kids were the only kids who considered it cool to be smart.”
The Tomb of the Maccabees, Found at Last?
Archaeologists are reviving a 145-year-old hypothesis.