Churchill and The Jews: A Curious Match
Reading Adam Gopnik's superb essay on Winston Churchill in the latest New Yorker, makes you wonder what Churchill actually thought about Jews. That question seemed about settled when Martin Gilbert,...
View ArticleCasaubon, A Love Story: Why Christians Loved Hebrew During the Renaissance
George Eliot and Umberto Eco were smitten with Isaac Casaubon, perhaps Renaissance Europe's leading man of letters, both writing novels inspired by him. It's obvious why: he was a bibliophile whose...
View ArticleHow Bad Was the Inquistion? What Adam Gopnik Gets Right--and Wrong--about Our...
[Update: The book discussed in this blog, "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World," by Cullen Murphy, gets a nice review in today's New York Times. Check it out here.]read more
View ArticleOn the Jewish Mount Rushmore, Would Ulysses S. Grant Make it?
Do you ever wonder what, one hundred years from now, historians will make of Obama’s record? And how about something more specific: his record with Jews? I do. But reading Jenna Weissman Joselit’s...
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