The Palestinian National Movement Has Reached a Point of Crisis
The real Nakba.
May 22, 2018
The Master Historian of the Middle East
The passing of Bernard Lewis.
Bernard Lewis, the preeminent scholar of Islam and the Middle East, has died two weeks shy of his 102nd birthday. Author of erudite works in the history of Arab and Islamic societies, Lewis was also a man of the world and a versatile writer for general audiences who married a commanding voice with an engaging and graceful style. In the aftermath of 9/11, he won great influence with best-selling works like What Went Wrong? and The Crisis of Islam. Born and educated in England, in the 1970s Lewis moved to the U.S. where he lived (apart from winters in Tel Aviv) until his death. To mark his centenary in 2016, the historian Martin Kramer, a friend and former student, published in Mosaic a retrospective analysis and assessment of Lewis’s career and achievement:
May 22, 2018
The Master Historian of the Middle East
The passing of Bernard Lewis.
Not Mere Prejudice, but the Organization of Politics against the Jews
The function of anti-Semitism.
Why a Group of Democratic Senators Sided with Hamas
A struggle for the soul of the party.
The Jewish Charity That Sent Jews from the Lower East Side to the American Heartland
And the mixed motives behind it.