Fighting Hizballah Should Be on the U.S. Anti-Corruption Agenda
The organization’s network of crime and graft stretches from West Africa to Paraguay.
May 9, 2023
The Soviet Jewish Poet Who Died Because of a Poem
Two new books bring Osip Mandelstam to an English-language audience.
“Only in Russia,” said the great modernist Jewish poet Osip Mandelstam, “is poetry respected: it gets people killed.” Mandelstam’s 1933 poem “The Kremlin Highlander,” which mocked Stalin, didn’t get him get him killed—but it did get him arrested and then banned from the USSR’s major cities. In 1938 he was arrested again and sentenced to the gulag, where he died a few months later. Donald Rayfield reviews a biography of Mandelstam by Ralph Dutli, and an English translation of Mandelstam’s second book of verse—titled Tristia—by Thomas de Waal:
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A Haredi Reflection on the Zionist Miracle
A call to action and a trial.
The Soviet Jewish Poet Who Died Because of a Poem
Two new books bring Osip Mandelstam to an English-language audience.
When Shanghai Was an Intellectual Capital of Sephardi Jewry
“A fearless exponent of traditional Judaism and Jewish nationalism.”
Remembering the Murder of Jews in Medieval Germany, and Its Impact on the Jewish Calendar
The Rindfleisch massacres.