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June 4, 2018

The Refusenik Who Took Photographs of Life in the Gulag

And was a record-breaking sniper.

A native of the Latvian city of Riga, Joseph Schneider narrowly escaped the Nazis and joined the Red Army in 1944, serving for the next seven years. He then dedicated himself to sharpshooting (he reportedly set a world record in 1954), photography, and clandestine Zionist activism. Recently the Israel National Library acquired his extensive collection of photographs. Yaakov Schwartz writes:

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June 4, 2018

  1. The Myth of America’s Middle East Malfeasance

    The region’s rulers have not been hapless pawns.

  2. Hamas’s Aims in Gaza

    And the moral case for Jewish exercise of power.

  3. The Campus Intersectionality Craze Makes Jews Uniquely Vulnerable

    The weak versus the Jew.

  4. The Refusenik Who Took Photographs of Life in the Gulag

    And was a record-breaking sniper.

  5. The Not-Quite-Lost Languages of Iraqi Jewry

    And their literary history.