Islamic State’s Defeat Doesn’t Mean Victory for the U.S.
Fighting terror and containing the Iran-Russia alliance.
July 12, 2017
S.Y. Agnon’s Tribute to the Martyrs of His Hometown
He positions himself not as a subtly ironic modernist but as a humble, heartbroken preserver of memory.
The Nobel Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon left strict instructions for his daughter to see that, after his death, a group of his stories be published as a single volume. In accordance with Agnon’s wishes, they appeared under the title Ir Umlo’ah, meaning “A City in Its Fullness”—the city being Agnon’s native Buczacz, where all of these stories take place, and which figures prominently in his other writings. Reviewing an English translation of a selection of these stories—edited by Jeffrey Saks and the late Alan Mintz—along with Mintz’s volume about the Buczacz stories, Ruby Namdar writes:
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The Anti-Defamation League Seems Unable to Come to Terms with Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
Betraying its mission.
Will Avi Gabbay Lead Israel’s Labor Party to a Comeback?
A businessman and child of Moroccan immigrants is a sharp break from the socialist past.
S.Y. Agnon’s Tribute to the Martyrs of His Hometown
He positions himself not as a subtly ironic modernist but as a humble, heartbroken preserver of memory.
Archaeological Clues for Delineating the Borders of Ancient Judah
Pillar figurines and rosette stamps confirm the biblical account.