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Essay American Jewish Writers and Israel Earlier this week, Michael C. Kotzin wrote a two-part series on radical Islamism’s war against the Jews. You can find part one here and part two here. He has been… Michael C. Kotzin May 8, 2015
Essay World Zionism and Paris’s Personal and Political Patterns Roger Cohen is a columnist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990: as a correspondent in Paris and Berlin, and as bureau chief in the Balkans… Roger Cohen January 19, 2015
Nonfiction Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
Essay Where Should We Have Gone? Earlier this week, Adam Rovner wrote about the top five alternative Jewish homelands that he didn’t explore in his new book, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands… Adam Rovner December 10, 2014
Essay Top 5 Promised Lands I Didn’t Explore Adam Rovner is the author of In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel out this week from NYU Press. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Adam Rovner December 8, 2014
Nonfiction The Forgotten Zionist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon
Nonfiction Cinema and Zionism: The Development of a Nation Through Film Ariel L. Feldestein; Merav Pagis, trans.
Essay Detective Fiction and the Zionist Cultural Revolution Today on the Visiting Scribe, D. A. Mishani continues with his series “The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective,” where he has been investigating why it’s so… D. A. Mishani May 29, 2013
Essay An Intentional Detour Earlier this week, Daniel Gordis wrote about how ideas and the books in which they are expressed change history and about the discourse surrounding Israel as… Daniel Gordis August 27, 2012
Essay Ideas Do Matter In his last post, Daniel Gordis wrote about the discourse surrounding Israel as a conflict of ideas about the nation-state. Daniel is blogging here all week for Jewish… Daniel Gordis August 22, 2012
