Why the Jordan Valley Is Crucial to Israel’s Security
It could once again turn the Land of Israel into a vital land bridge between Asia and Africa.
September 27, 2019
In His Two Great Novels, Vasily Grossman Exposed the Similarities between Nazism and Communism, and Their Shared Consequences for the Jews
Stalingrad.
The Soviet-Jewish journalist and novelist Vasily Grossman is best known for his 1960 novel Life and Fate, an epic tale of World War II, the Holocaust, and Stalinism, which was “arrested” by the KGB and then smuggled out of the USSR in manuscript. It was not published until 1980, sixteen years after Grossman’s death, and then only in the West. But Life and Fate was in fact the sequel to a lesser known work, Stalingrad, which was published in censored form in 1954. Reviewing a new English translation of the latter book—based on uncensored manuscripts—along with a new biography of Grossman by Alexandra Popoff, Gary Saul Morson writes:
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The Do-Over Election Performed a Vital Service for Israeli Democracy
Netanyahu’s final service to Israel?
The Movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel Puts a New Spin on Old Anti-Semitism
Its aim is the destruction of the Jewish state, and its result will be bloodshed.
In His Two Great Novels, Vasily Grossman Exposed the Similarities between Nazism and Communism, and Their Shared Consequences for the Jews
Stalingrad.
What Rabbinic Commentaries Reveal about the Fate of Abraham’s Son
Isaac unbound.