Iran Is Blind, Deaf, and Humiliated
The practical and psychological effects of the Israeli attack.
October 30, 2024
Mourning the Last of the Deans of Israeli Holocaust Historians
Yehuda Bauer, in memoriam.
In the U.S., much scholarship of the Shoah has its roots in the first English-language books on the subject, published in the 1960s. Israeli historical research, by contrast, flows from the works of a different set of scholars, much less known on this side of the Atlantic, with a different set of assumptions and priorities. The deans of this group were Yitzhak Arad, Israel Gutman, and Yehuda Bauer—the last of whom died on October 18. Andrew Silow-Carroll describes how Bauer, as a graduate student, came to the subject:
October 30, 2024
The “Generals’ Plan” to Lay Siege to Northern Gaza
The originator of this alternative strategy makes his case.
Writers against Free Expression Rally to Boycott Israel
“Publishing in translation sure beats prissily refusing to allow my precious sentences to be corrupted by the language of Jews.”
The Real Imbalance between Adam and Eve in the Garden
Man, but not woman, is described as lonely.
Mourning the Last of the Deans of Israeli Holocaust Historians
Yehuda Bauer, in memoriam.