Iran’s Anti-Semite-in-Chief
Ali Khamenei’s “near-pathological obsession with Jews and Israel.”
September 21, 2015
Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and the Jews
“A non-Jewish writer writing with much sensitivity about Jews.”
Vladimir Nabokov—unlike many other Russian émigrés of noble lineage—held consistently positive attitudes toward Jews. This may in part have been due to his wife, Véra, who was born to an acculturated Russian-Jewish family and remained proud of her Jewish heritage all her life. Maxim Shrayer reflects on the eminent writer’s relationship with the Jews as seen in his collected letters to Véra (recently published in English) and in his fiction:
September 21, 2015
Ann Coulter’s Jewish Problem
Is opposing the Iran deal really pandering to Jews?
How to Prevent a Conflagration in Jerusalem
In parts of the city, stone throwing has become a daily event.
Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and the Jews
“A non-Jewish writer writing with much sensitivity about Jews.”
A Brief History of the High Holy Day Prayer Book in America
The maḥzor from the 1890s to the present.