Saudi Arabia Isn’t What It Used to Be
The U.S. should be encouraging, nor ignoring, reforms.
January 23, 2023
The 19th Century’s Most Consequential Jewish Philanthropist, and the Gentiles Who Hated Him
Maurice de Hirsch could acquire vast wealth, but he could never feel at home.
The grandson of a Jewish financier who, against considerable odds, had been made baron by the king of Bavaria, Maurice de Hirsch would become one of the wealthiest men in Europe and perhaps the most significant Jewish philanthropist of the 19th century. In 1869, he set about building the Ottoman empire’s first railroad network, connecting it to the rest of Europe. Abigail Green reviews a new biography of Hirsch by Matthias Lehmann:
January 23, 2023
The Soviet Union Is Gone, but Its Anti-Zionist Campaign Lives On
Mahmoud Abbas’s dissertation, and the “Zionologists” behind it.
When It Comes to Judaism’s Holiest Site, International Opinion Seems to Favor Religious Inequality
The State Department, the Temple Mount, and human-rights hypocrisy.
Maimonides’ Learned and Acerbic Provençal Critic
“On my life and mind! There is no great analysis here.”
The 19th Century’s Most Consequential Jewish Philanthropist, and the Gentiles Who Hated Him
Maurice de Hirsch could acquire vast wealth, but he could never feel at home.