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If you’ve ever wondered why “do-gooder” is a pejorative label, Stephen Norwood’s book on “Antisemitism and the American Far Left’ will enlighten you. Rarely has there been a group of Americans so prone to mistake feeling good about what they…
read moreWolfgang G. Schwanitz, Islam in Europa, Revolten in Mittelost: Islamismus und Genozid von Wilhelm II und Enver Pascha über Hitler und al-Husaini bis Arafat, Usama Bin Ladin und Ahmadinejad sowie Gespräche mit Bernard Lewis (Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, 2013), xii+784 pp.…
read moreDaniel Jonah Goldhagen’s first book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” (1996), was a blockbuster despite (or because of) its blunt thesis: Inspired by a uniquely German “eliminationist Anti-Semitism” inherited from the Middle Ages, ordinary Germans killed millions of Jews during the…
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Today, more than sixty years after the destruction of European Jewry, antisemitism is a globalized phenomenon and one that appears to be evolving on a number of fronts. Jew-hatred has a millennial history and is one of humanity’s most complex…
read more![Review of Bohaterowie, Hochsztaplerzy, Opisywacze, Wokol Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego [Heroes, Hucksters and Story-Tellers: On the Jewish Military Union in the Warsaw Ghetto]](https://Images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51y6s-8m72L._AA200_.jpg)
This book is written by two historians, one a Pole, Dariusz Libionka, and the other an Israeli, Laurence Weinbaum. Dr. Libionka is the director of the Majdanek State Museum Research Department and chief editor of the journal, Zagłada Żydów. Studia…
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The study of antisemitism has taken many turns and twists over the years. The goal remains: understanding where this hatred emanates from and how it continues to cascade throughout the generations. While the scholarship has differed on exact definitions, the…
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Six years ago, Taner Akçam reminds us in his book on The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity, a Turkish court sentenced two journalists to a year to jail for using the term, “genocide,” to describe “events of 1915.” It passed…
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The ongoing debate concerning America’s response to the Holocaust—and, more precisely, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR’s) record with regard to the Jews of Europe from 1933 to 1945—is passionate and highly contentious. It is largely characterized by two opposing and…
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Several years ago, Bar-Ilan University held a symposium on religion and the media. As a newspaper reporter, I was curious as to what the panelists might have to say about the moral issues which a journalist occasionally has to face.…
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Daniel Greene, Director of the Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has written a well researched monograph that focuses on young, college based, American Jews, children of immigrants from Eastern Europe who, at…
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