Allan Arkush is the senior contributing editor of the Jewish Review of Books and professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University.
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Earlier this week, Mosaic ’s senior editor Andrew Koss spoke with Allan Arkush, the author of our November essay, about the early days of American Zionism, the subject of his piece. Read the transc...
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Shocked by World War I, American Jews turned to Zionism as a way to save their European brethren. Their support came at just the right moment to affect the course of Jewish history.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy don’t mince words in their account of the divisions within the Jewish people today. They know everything the pessimists know, but it does not faze them. Looking on the b...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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In his essay on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Martin Kramer has performed a valuable service by bringing Nahum Sokolow to center stage. Sokolow, as Kramer acknowledges, is not a...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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At the beginning of his superb essay on Ahad Ha’am, Hillel Halkin cites his protagonist’s savage takedown of Altneuland , a futuristic 1902 novel by Theodor Herzl—by, that is to say, Ahad Ha’am’s s...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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I didn’t need the experience of the last 36 years to be convinced that Hillel Halkin’s analysis in his 1977 book, Letters to an American Jewish Friend , was correct. I read the book almost immediate...
