Putting Aside the Pious Lies about the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
The U.S. shouldn’t be neutral.
January 23, 2018
“Can it be that ours is the century in which the Jews perish?”
Reviewing the recent translations of Isaac Babel’s work by Val Vinkour and Boris Drayluk, Gary Saul Morson explains the unique genius of the Soviet Jewish writer who was executed at Stalin’s orders in 1940 at the age of forty-five:
The U.S. shouldn’t be neutral.
What Muslim backlash?
It’s all right to say you’re against anti-Semitism, but unacceptable to act too vigorously against it.
“Can it be that ours is the century in which the Jews perish?”
A false messiah and an enduring legacy.
Reviewing the recent translations of Isaac Babel’s work by Val Vinkour and Boris Drayluk, Gary Saul Morson explains the unique genius of the Soviet Jewish writer who was executed at Stalin’s orders in 1940 at the age of forty-five:
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