Mahmoud Abbas Comes to the UN to Walk away from the Negotiating Table
When difficulties arise, vacate the premises and seek out photographers.
February 22, 2018
A Holocaust Novel without a Silver Lining
The Tree of Life.
In The Tree of Life, a Yiddish-language trilogy of the Holocaust set in the Polish city of Lodz, Chava Rosenfarb explores the lives of ten richly drawn characters before the war, and the fate that befell them once it began. (The trilogy was published in English translation in 2004.) While Rosenfarb herself was a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, Dara Horn explains that the book is no memoir but an “immersive, engrossing, [and] exquisite” work of literary fiction, albeit one that confounds the expectations of American readers:
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How Anti-Israel Propaganda Whitewashes the Abuse of Children
Setting the record straight about Ahed Tamimi.
In Bahrain, Repression Plays into Iran’s Hands
Can the country’s dangerous spiral be stopped?
A Holocaust Novel without a Silver Lining
The Tree of Life.
The Forgotten Diplomat Who Helped Lay the Groundwork for Israel’s Special Relationship with the U.S.
James McDonald, the first American ambassador to Israel.