Strengthening Iran’s Moderates Is a Fool’s Errand
A system built on anti-Americanism.
January 28, 2021
How the Jews of the Caucasus Used a Fake Pandemic to Save Their Religious Treasures from the Nazis
Playing on the Third Reich’s racial obsessions.
When German forces arrived in the eastern parts of the Caucasus Mountains in 1942, they encountered two distinct Jewish populations: Ashkenazi Jews who had migrated there in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the “Mountain Jews,” who spoke a language called Judeo-Tat (related to Persian and Kurdish) and whose ancestors had settled there in ancient times. The SS swiftly set about massacring both groups of Jews, but the Jewish community of a city called Nalchik was able to preserve the lives of most of its members, as Alissa Abramov writes:
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The Pentagon Welcomes Israel to the Middle East
A decision long overdue.
Why a “Working Definition” of Anti-Semitism Has Prompted Such Fury from Those Who Claim Not to Be Anti-Semites
And how the Biden administration can confront the hatred of Jews.
How the Jews of the Caucasus Used a Fake Pandemic to Save Their Religious Treasures from the Nazis
Playing on the Third Reich’s racial obsessions.
In His Latest Novel, A.B. Yehoshua Toys with His Favorite Themes: Unrequited Lust and Palestinians
Is there a light at the end of his tunnel?