Natan Sharansky Faces Off with BDS at Brown University
A sad moment in American higher education.
February 1, 2016
Literary Exiles on a Belgian Beach, 1936
The calm before the storm.
In the summer of 1936, a number of Central European writers, almost all of them Jewish, gathered in the coastal Belgian town of Ostend. They had left Germany fearing Nazi persecution, and in Belgium found a measure of tranquility—at least until the breakout of war in 1939. Volker Weidermann describes this moment in European literary history in Summer Before the Dark, a book that, according to Adam Kirsch, provides rich detail but misses something important:
February 1, 2016
Why America Must Maintain Its Flawed Alliance with Saudi Arabia
It’s still a better ally than Iran.
Literary Exiles on a Belgian Beach, 1936
The calm before the storm.
Ancient Tombstones Shed Light on Rabbinic Life in the Galilee
Two in Aramaic, one in Greek.
The Catskills: From James Fenimore Cooper to Milton Berle
A new history.