A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
Gil Rubin reviews James Loeffler’s Rooted Cosmopolitans In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist
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The Sagacious Scholar and the Censor – By Adam Ferziger
Adam Ferziger on Marc Shapiro’s Changing the Immutable Halfway through this exceedingly erudite and equally disturbing study, Marc Shapiro tells a story that
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A History of Violence – By Arie Dubnov
Arie Dubnov on Hillel Cohen’s Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict If Israel/Palestine is to be compared to a powder keg, Jerusalem/al-Quds, no
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The Ghost of Jabotinsky and the Future of Israel – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Hillel Halkin’s Jabotinsky: a Life There is little question that Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist Movement, was one of
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Many Admirers, Few Disciples: The Life and Legacy of Rav Kook – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Yehudah Mirsky’s Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution In the fall of 1913, Avraham Yitzhak Kook, then serving as
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An Invented Revolution – By Jonathan Klawans
Jonathan Klawans in the Jew and Judean Forum Many learned colleagues have written detailed analyses of these matters and I’ve been asked to explain my view.
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A Tragedy of the Most Ironic Sort – By Todd Hasak-Lowy
Todd Hasak-Lowy on Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Every publishing season brings a new batch of titles dealing with
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Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined
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