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May 14, 2018

How a Great English Poet Found His Artistic and Jewish Identity in the Trenches

Remembering Isaac Rosenberg.

Last month saw the 100th anniversary of the death of Isaac Rosenberg, considered by many to be the greatest English poet of World War I. Robert Philpot describes the career of this child of impoverished Russian Jewish immigrants, whose formal education was interrupted when he was fourteen years old so that he could begin an apprenticeship as an engraver:

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May 14, 2018

  1. Lessons from the End of the Iran Deal

    And how to proceed.

  2. The New American Embassy Punctures the Fantasy of an International Jerusalem

    Without objection from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.

  3. Israeli Popular Music Is Bridging a Painful Fault Line

    From Independence Day celebrations to Eurovision.

  4. Finding a Way Out of Our Civilization’s Crisis of Confidence

    Can America have another Great Awakening?

  5. How a Great English Poet Found His Artistic and Jewish Identity in the Trenches

    Remembering Isaac Rosenberg.