Why Iran Will Not Be Able to Stabilize the Middle East
Instead, it will sow havoc.
November 12, 2015
How a Literary Masterpiece Launched Five Decades of Bad Holocaust Fiction
The Pawnbroker.
Decrying the proliferation of novels that exploit “an utterly unredemptive historical catastrophe for the sake of yet another love story or coming-of-age tale or journey of self-discovery,” Dara Horn considers Edward Lewis Wallant’s The Pawnbroker (1961). The novel tells the story of an embittered Holocaust survivor named Sol, who runs a pawnshop in Harlem, and it served as a prototype for others after it—which, she argues, it emphatically is not:
November 12, 2015
Why the Talmud Rejected the Greek View of Divine Law
Divine law vs. natural law.
How a Literary Masterpiece Launched Five Decades of Bad Holocaust Fiction
The Pawnbroker.
Yitzḥak Navon and His Biblical Namesake
Remembering Israel’s fifth president.
At the Center for American Progress, Netanyahu’s Visit Makes Some Employees Feel “Confusion and Hurt”
"Safe spaces" move from campuses to Washington.