Iranian Attacks in the Persian Gulf Require a Firm Response
The latest in a long series of aggressive and unprovoked military actions.
June 17, 2019
Marcel Proust’s Jewish Problem
Charles Swann and Alfred Dreyfus.
Although he was baptized as a child, Marcel Proust was born to a Jewish mother. In his major work, Remembrance of Things Past, the protagonist and narrator, also named Marcel, resembles the author in almost every way—except, notably, for the absence of Jewish ancestry. Instead, Proust seems to place this burden on the narrator’s friend Charles Swann, for whom the book’s third volume is named. Robert Siegel comments:
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Despite Egypt’s Good Relations with Israel, Its Ramadan Soap Operas Remain Heavy on Anti-Semitism
Even as the government tightens control of the media.
For Israel’s First Openly Gay Cabinet Member, the Hostility Comes from the Left
Pride and progressive prejudice.
Audrey Hepburn, Righteous Gentile
She helped rescue Jews in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Marcel Proust’s Jewish Problem
Charles Swann and Alfred Dreyfus.