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Into the Muck; or, Trials of the DiasporaTuesday, May 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A London-based lawyer with the firm of Mishcon de Reya, Anthony Julius has the unusual distinction of being a solicitor-advocate—that is, a solicitor who can also appear in court. He was on the defense team in the suit filed against the historian Deborah Lipstadt by the Holocaut denier David Irving; he has participated in litigating many cases bearing on the interests of Israel; and he represented Princess Diana in the last years of her life. A first-rate scholar, he is also the author of T. S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995), Idolizing Pictures: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Jewish Art (2001),...
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Fouad Ajami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Living on the seam between the Old Country and the New World, multitudes like Faisal Shahzad make up a deadly breed of combatants in a new kind of war.The Némirovsky Paradox
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Francine Prose | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography unconvincingly defends the Russian-Jewish-French novelist who died in Auschwitz in 1942 and whose work, rediscovered in 2004 to worldwide adulation, was then revealed to harbor a pronounced anti-Semitic streak.Soothing the Savage Breast?
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Jeremy Eichler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The gambist Jordi Savall's ambitious "Jerusalem" project offers mesmerizing sounds but fails to demonstrate music's alleged power to unite and conciliate.Tar Heels
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Ben Steelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book narrates the Jewish history of North Carolina, from Roanoke Island to Harry Golden and beyond.What “Coexistence”?
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Bataween | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A glowing report in Haaretz misrepresents the reality of Moroccan Jewish life.
Europa EuropaMonday, May 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe will be marked this week with speeches, parades, and, one imagines, more than a little concern. The free-fall of the Greek economy has exposed enormous fault lines in the economic institutions of the European Union and the moral community on which it rests. Similarly concentrating the European mind are the recent electoral success of the far-right Jobbik party in Hungary, Russia's swift victory over Georgia and NATO in August 2008, and the challenge presented by the swelling numbers of Muslims and by militant Islam to the new Europe's...
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Scott Jaschik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The re-education of a Lebanese professor who made the mistake of collaborating on a pro-Palestinian book with two pro-Palestinian Israeli academics.America in Hebrew Eyes
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Robert M. Seltzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Ha-Zefirah, a Warsaw daily, Hebrew-reading East European Jews in the late 19th century could learn, among other things, about an attractive, bustling, intriguing New World.Singing the Yemen Blues
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From a childhood studying Torah to a career as a professional singer (and an expert in Serbian church music), Ravid Kahalani is returning to his Yemenite roots. Watch a recording session.
