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The university was closed the day before yesterday, 9 December, in anticipation of the 10th. Quiet days, however: the occasional scuffle and an unremarkable street demonstration.
In any case, things…
Over and over, yes, over and over,
I shook the pinions of my anger,
Again and again you broke faith with me,
And I stormed at your crop of iniquity.
But over and over, and over and over,
Your songs…
The first man, Adam, lies in the grass,And spits at a passing cloud,Humbly, the cloud says, “Adam,Please, would you cut that out.”But Adam sticks out his tongueAnd says to the…
This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…
One must hurry to grasp it; yesterday, it did not exist; tomorrow it will be no more. Yesterday there were Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, discovered by…
Ashkenaz, a descendant of the sons of Noah, grandson of Japheth, son of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).
It was in a rather ancient period in the history of the diaspora that the term Ashkenazim, or descendants…
The French presence in North Africa completely disrupted the pattern of coexistence between the Jewish and Moslem communities that had existed for over a thousand years…
For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…