Anti-Semitism Returned, and It’s Here to Stay
For New York Times cartoonists and white-supremacist murderers, Jews exercise nefarious control.
April 30, 2019
Loyal as Moses?
To the late Bezalel Narkiss—for many years the acknowledged dean of the history of Jewish art—any depiction of animals in medieval Jewish manuscripts was merely decorative, a case of borrowing from non-Jewish iconography devoid of any specific symbolism. Marc Michael Epstein takes the opposite position, one he first arrived at thanks to a single illustration, as he writes:
For New York Times cartoonists and white-supremacist murderers, Jews exercise nefarious control.
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Loyal as Moses?
To the late Bezalel Narkiss—for many years the acknowledged dean of the history of Jewish art—any depiction of animals in medieval Jewish manuscripts was merely decorative, a case of borrowing from non-Jewish iconography devoid of any specific symbolism. Marc Michael Epstein takes the opposite position, one he first arrived at thanks to a single illustration, as he writes:
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