Targeted Strikes Are Not Enough to Save Northern Israel from Hizballah
But the IDF might not be ready for war.
June 17, 2024
Kabbalah, Prague, and the Fantasy That Jews Could Magically Hold Their Enemies in Abeyance
Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.
Like Herta Müller, Leo Perutz (1882–1957) was a novelist born into a German-speaking milieu in Eastern Europe, although he was not a Romanian Catholic but a Jew from Prague. His books, writes Michael Weingrad, are “intricate puzzle-novels that contain mystery plots and paranormal elements, yet often borrow aspects of the historical novel.” Weingrad takes a close look at one of them:
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The Decline of the Israel-Australia Alliance
After 74 years of bipartisan support.
A Nobel Prize-Winning German Author on the Turn against Jews and Democracy
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Kabbalah, Prague, and the Fantasy That Jews Could Magically Hold Their Enemies in Abeyance
Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.
Preserving the Jewish Graves of Old Vilna
Living cemeteries and dead ones.