Jerome Chanes
By Jerome Chanes
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Culture Lyrical Voices of Zion
Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry By Alan Mintz Stanford University Press, 544 pages, $65 The 19th-century German writer Heinrich Heine foresaw what would happen to his fellow Jews: “If Europe were to become a prison,” he mused, “America would still present a loophole of escape… Then may the Jews…
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Culture Bismarck’s Bayonets
Bismarck: A Life By Jonathan Steinberg Oxford University Press, 592 pages, $34.95 Otto von Bismarck once said, “You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.” By making Bismarck prime minister of Prussia in 1862, the Prussian monarch, King Wilhelm (William) I, was rolling the dice. Wilhelm was facing a constitutional crisis after the…
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Culture A Church Father with A Stroke of Mercy?
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism By Paula Fredriksen Doubleday, 512 pages, $35.00. The place of the Church Fathers in the contouring of Christianity, particularly with respect to demonizing the Jews, is well established, and their writings have been well rehearsed by theologians, scholars and religious leaders. Anti-Judaism was central…
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Culture A Brief History of an Enduring Forgery
‘Lies have short legs” is a proverb invoked by historian Richard Levy in discussing historical frauds and forgeries. Clearly, in the case of a slew of antisemitic libels — most infamously “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” — such folk wisdom is just plain wrong. “Protocols” may well be the longest-legged lie of modern…
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