The Moscow-Damascus Axis, and What It Means for Jerusalem
What of reports that Putin is sending troops to Syria?
September 9, 2015
A Great Jewish Historian’s Bibliomania
The man who brought Jewish history to the American academy tells the story of his library.
Salo Wittmayer Baron was the first person to hold a chair in Jewish history at an American university and the author of numerous groundbreaking studies in the field. In an essay first published in 1989, he tells the story of his passion for collecting books, and how he assembled his enormous private library, most of which now resides at Stanford University:
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For Jeremy Corbyn, Israel Is Uniquely Wicked among the Nations
"Abhorrence for a person’s views should not stop conversation" unless "the person happens to be Israeli."
A Great Jewish Historian’s Bibliomania
The man who brought Jewish history to the American academy tells the story of his library.
John Kerry’s Passion for Appeasement
"Chamberlain’s claims were actually more modest than Kerry’s."
A Lost Yiddish Operetta Returns to the Stage
The Golden Bride, which premiered in 1923, will be revived.