Jerome A. Chanes
By Jerome A. Chanes
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Culture Whither Orthodoxy?
Two April conferences in Jerusalem illustrated both sides of the coin of Orthodoxy in Israel, indeed Orthodoxy worldwide. One, the much heralded “The Future of Modern Orthodoxy: Imagine the Future. Join the Conversation,” under the auspices of a National Religious Party spin-off, “Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah,” was held April 1 in Jerusalem and was predictably passionate…
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Culture The Nazi Sympathizers Who Ran American Universities
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses By Stephen H. Norwood Cambridge University Press, 350 pages, $29 American Jews remember the Ivy League colleges of the 1930s as being places where Jews were not especially welcome. Quotas on Jewish students — the infamous numerus clausus imported from Europe —…
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Culture A Light Onto a Long, Dark Night
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad By Robert Wistrich Random House, 1,184 pages, $40 In 1974, Arnold Forster and Benjamin Epstein of the Anti-Defamation League authored “The New Anti-Semitism,” one of their series of rather lurid books that were basically collections of ADL memoranda on right-wing antisemitic thugs and acts. The…
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Culture How, Why, Who Hates Us
Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse Edited by Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson University of Delaware Press, 248 pages, $75.00. Historian Victor Tcherikover used to say that there are few phenomena in history that have a history of 2,000 years. Antisemitism is one of those phenomena. The cultural antisemitism of the ancient world;…
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Culture Kasztner: Hero or Devil?
Gaylen Ross’s splendid new documentary, “Killing Kasztner,” comes at a time when a new generation of Israelis is rediscovering a forgotten conflict, one that threatened to tear apart Israeli society in the 1950s. Until recently Rudolf Yisrael “Rezso” Kasztner had been the forgotten person in Israel. An ironic and puzzling situation since in the mid…
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Culture Remembering (Not) Remembering
We Remember With Reverence And Love: American Jews And The Myth Of Silence After The Holocaust, 1945-1962 By Hasia Diner New York University Press, 528 pages, $29.95. Hasia Diner is a historian who believes that things actually happened in history. She is also comprehensive, indeed dogged in her research, which her oeuvre amply demonstrates. Diner,…
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Culture Art and Apocrypha: The Fraught Beauty of the Dead Sea Scrolls
They survived, untouched, for nearly two millennia, but the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been, since their discovery in 1947, fraught with controversy. Ownership, religious patrimony, Christian-Jewish relations and the odor of antisemitism emanating from some Christian scholars who controlled access to the scrolls — these have roiled the academic and public-affairs worlds…
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Culture What Makes Edgar Run?
Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance By Edgar M. Bronfman and Beth Zasloff St. Martin’s Press, 240 pages, $24.95. One has to be in a coal mine in Uzbekistan to be unaware of the Bronfmans, particularly Edgar M. Bronfman and his Jewish communal activities. Top dog at the World Jewish Congress for more…
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