The Danger of Hollow Fixes to the Iran Deal
To fix or to nix?
March 20, 2018
Remembering the Man Who Exposed Official American Indifference to the Holocaust
David S. Wyman, 1928-2018.
The historian David S. Wyman, who died last Wednesday at the age of eighty-nine, claimed that he never knew what brought him—a Gentile from New Hampshire—to focus his doctoral research on Franklin Roosevelt’s policies regarding Jewish refugees from Germany. But the resulting work, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941 (1968), would open up a raft of unanswered questions. His 1978 Commentary essay “Why Auschwitz Was Never Bombed” and then his 1984 The Abandonment of the Jews shaped all future discussion about this chapter in American history. Pierre Sauvage writes:
March 20, 2018
What a Recent Assassination Attempt Says about the Coming Palestinian Succession Struggle
The U.S. and Israel can help by encouraging realistic expectations.
No, American Support for Israel Isn’t Dwindling
In fact, Israel is as popular as ever.
Remembering the Man Who Exposed Official American Indifference to the Holocaust
David S. Wyman, 1928-2018.
Constantinople’s Controversial Sabbath Bookseller
Promising to buy books in synagogue?