Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
October 5, 2020
A Memoir of the Gulag Explores the Baleful Consequences of Soviet Tyranny for the Jews—and for Russia
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.
When World War II broke out in 1939, Julius Margolin had just returned to his native Poland from the Land of Israel—three years after making aliyah—to attend to some business. He soon found himself in the Soviet-occupied portion of the country and, the next year, was exiled to one of Stalin’s vast network of prison camps, where he remained until 1946, after which he returned to Palestine. According to the historian Timothy Snyder, Margolin’s memoir of this period is perhaps the very best personal account of the Gulag. Snyder writes in his foreword to the recently published English translation:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insults Israel’s Supporters, Especially the Remaining Jewish Liberals Among Them
Boycotting Yitzhak Rabin.
What the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict Might Mean for Israel, Iran, and the Middle East
Bad for Jerusalem, worse for Tehran?
A Memoir of the Gulag Explores the Baleful Consequences of Soviet Tyranny for the Jews—and for Russia
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.
Englishness, Jewishness, Saul Bellow—and Martin Amis
The novelist in search of a literary father.