What the President’s Riyadh Speech Got Right, and What It Overlooked
Where does terrorism come from, anyway?
May 23, 2017
After many decades, not yet fluent.
Alan Mintz, one of America’s foremost scholars of modern Hebrew literature, died on Saturday at the age of sixty-nine. Last month, he published in Mosaic a personal essay on his career studying, teaching, and speaking the language that, as “the portable component of the Jewish national idea,” was to him a constant and sustaining “source of nourishment and delight”:
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Dismissing long-held fallacies about the region.
After many decades, not yet fluent.
Gripping reading from recently declassified documents.
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