Gaza’s Fake Humanitarian Crisis
And those who have an interest in perpetuating it.
June 21, 2017
Józef Wittlin, Forgotten Chronicler of L’viv
What he shared with Isaac Babel.
Although he considered himself a Christian writer, the Polish poet, novelist, essayist, and translator Józef Wittlin (1896–1976) was born to Jewish parents and wrote extensively on Jewish subjects during the 1930s and 40s. The city of Lwów (now L’viv, Ukraine), where he lived from his childhood until World War II, plays a major role in his writings, and a collection of his essays on the city has recently been published in English. Comparing Wittlin’s Lwów to the Odessa of the Russian-Jewish author Isaac Babel, Uilleam Blacker writes:
June 21, 2017
No, Daniel Barenboim, the Holocaust Didn’t Create Israel
The musician as historian.
The Myth of the Lone Wolf Terrorist
A term that helps to ignore a problem.
The Supreme Court Should Strike Down Missouri’s Ban on State Funds for Religious Institutions
End the Blaine amendments.
Józef Wittlin, Forgotten Chronicler of L’viv
What he shared with Isaac Babel.