Unlike Most Political Autobiographies, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Is a Literary Success
A Tom Clancy novel written for a Tom Cruise movie adaptation.
May 4, 2023
A Tale of Lost Faith, the Shoah, and a Deepening Love of the Jewish People
The ambivalent secularism of Chaim Grade’s quarrel.
In his 1953 story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner, the great Yiddish author Chaim Grade imagines a dialogue between Chaim Vilner, a former yeshiva student who has forsaken Orthodoxy, and his still-zealous friend Hersh Rasseyner, about the moral and theological implications of the Holocaust—which both men have survived. Sarah Rindner reviews the newly published complete translation of this work by Ruth R. Wisse, which first appeared in Mosaic.
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Pro-Iranian Militias’ Romance with Russia
How the Wagner Group became honorary Shiites.
Two Forgotten American Jews Who Helped Build the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Bringing JFK and LBJ closer to Jerusalem.
A Tale of Lost Faith, the Shoah, and a Deepening Love of the Jewish People
The ambivalent secularism of Chaim Grade’s quarrel.
Why the UK’s Chief Rabbi Is Grateful to Be Going to Church This Saturday
A tale of two coronations.