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For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…
All discussions pertaining to the Jews must begin with some very gloomy observations. The Jews are, everywhere, a minority group, and it is a particular misfortune these days to be a minority group in…
Ethnic minorities—majorities, too—did not suffer any particular persecution in our town. Rise as high as you can go, earn as much as you can manage, build something out of what you achieve—all you…
Gentile is a category of difference. It is the point of departure, something self-evident. The Jew at prayer declares this daily: “Thou hast chosen us from all the…
[…] [I]f suddenly Mexico and Israel went to war, on which side would I fight? My cowardly answer was plain and simple: “I really wasn’t cut out to be a soldier. So on neither one, since I’m a pacifist…
Warsaw, August 15, 1861 [in the weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), August 16, 1861]Everyone knows the reason behind the fratricidal war between secessionists and unionists in the United States. We touch…
Change has been so rapid, in fact, that American Jews in their twenties and thirties inhabit a completely different world from that in which their parents grew up.
The essence of the change is that…
I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
Why did the American Jewish Congress send a group of its leaders to Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to meet with leaders there?
The delegation, which met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s…