Anti-Semitism

Toward an Archeology of Hell

Alex Joffe — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Remembrance is a contradictory imperative. Respectful preservation of the past, especially the remains of those who have gone before us, stands at odds with the need to understand the same past, especially through means like archeology.

Nazi Family Values

David Jacobs — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

The photo albums of Hitler's associates—the extended Nazi family, as it were—were of little or no interest to researchers immediately after World War II. But historians are taking a second look.

Extending an Olive Branch

Benny Morris — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Wary of Turkey's increasing radicalism, Israel and Greek Cyprus are forging a new military alliance to protect their offshore gas fields, and to defend against the growing threat of militant Islam.

Excavating Nazi Extermination Centers

Isaac Gilead, Yoram Haimi, Wojciech Mazurek — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

What do archeological excavations actually tell us about the operation of death camps?

Treblinka: Revealing the Hidden Graves of the Holocaust

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Forensic archeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls describes her work at the site of Treblinka.

Creating a Monster

Jonathan Kirsch — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

On the weak-chinned, bespectacled, clumsy young man who ambitiously reinvented himself as . . . Heinrich Himmler.

Vatican't

Giulio Meotti — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel's decision to cede some sovereignty over the "Hall of the Last Supper" to the Catholic Church will only embolden the Vatican's campaign to appropriate Jewish Jerusalem.

Hear, O Friends of Israel

Daniel Johnson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

In 1987, exactly a quarter-century ago, the appearance of a work of Jewish history caused a stir. For one thing, the author was not Jewish; for another, the book was unashamedly supportive of the State of Israel, which even then was enough to provoke hostility, especially on the Left.

Who's Afraid of a Nuclear Iran?

Douglas Murray — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel is—and since 1973, Israel has had reason to think that on the brink of its annihilation, Europe wouldn't act to save it. (Video)

History without Witnesses

Deborah E. Lipstadt — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

As the Holocaust disappears from living memory, what matters is not who is speaking but who is listening.

Bloomsbury's Rabbi

Matthew Ackerman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

A translator stands between two languages and between the two worlds that the languages represent. If he does his job well, he may belong in neither place. Such was the fate of Samuel Koteliansky, an emigré Russian Jew who translated Chekhov, befriended D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield, and circulated on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group.

The Mufti and the U.S. Election

Rafael Medoff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

A mufti calls for violence against Jews, Netanyahu demands Palestinian leaders disavow him, and America's presidential race could be affected. That could be a news report from last week. Or from 1946.

Hard Times for Hamas

Guy Bechor — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Its rhetoric is as fierce as ever, but since it's been strangled in Jordan, expelled from Syria, and defunded by Iran, Hamas lacks the friends and money to match.

Restrictions on the Reformation

Dean Phillip Bell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

The Hebraism which permeated the Reformation did not necessarily translate into increased tolerance of Jews.

The Big Lie Returns

Ben Cohen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

As long as the enemies of the Jews control the meaning of the term 'anti-Semitism,' Jews will remain vulnerable to the calumny that they alone are the authors of their own misfortune.

Leonard Woolf's Complexity

Claire Messud — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Leonard Woolf—"the Jew," to Virginia and her friends—was "noble, engaged, and quietly passionate."

D.H. Lawrence and Kangaroo

George Simmers — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

In Lawrence's World War I novel, the "really ugly" character based on Koteliansky was a minor player, much like Kot in Bloomsbury.

Rematch!

Elliot Jager — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

London—Europe's biggest city, with 5.8 million eligible voters—goes to the polls on May 3rd to elect a mayor. Like any big city mayoral campaign, the contest will revolve mainly around local issues. But the race also has the potential to return a vitriolic anti-Zionist to City Hall.

A Conspiracy Against Catholicism?

Piers Paul Read — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

When Captain Alfred Dreyfus was unjustly convicted of espionage, many of those who rallied to his defense were not philo-Semites but militant atheists, bent on destroying his Catholic opponents.

Assad in the Balance

Daniel Freedman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Of all Israel's neighbors, Syria has traditionally been the most hostile. But now that the Arab League has deserted him, President Assad might be open to rapprochement with Israel and the West.