A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Opinion Sigmund Freud understood the uncanny sensation we all felt watching the Trump-Biden debate
In 1919, Freud wrote about how something all too familiar can morph into a shockingly unfamiliar nightmare
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Opinion For French Jews, a choice between two widely divergent parties, each with a history of antisemitism
Antisemitism on both the left and right leaves Jews feeling as if they're living in exile
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Film & TV What the world has lost with the loss of Anouk Aimée
With the death of the actress, who was born Nicole Dreyfus, comes the death of an idyllic image of France
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Culture Behind a dramatic election in France, the rise of a new Jewish leader — and also antisemitism
A surprisingly strong Socialist performance was led by Raphaël Glucksmann, whose grandparents emigrated to France in the 1930s
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Opinion What Netanyahu says when he speaks French — and why it borders on obscenity
Speaking on French television, the embattled Israeli leader made a plea for 'Judeo-Christian civilization'
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Culture France would like to believe that an antisemitic arson attack was an aberration — history says otherwise
A recent incident presents some eerie parallels to the First Crusade
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Culture Why ‘Waiting for Godot’ is an apt metaphor for Israeli and Palestinian history
Beckett's masterwork, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is a play where nothing happens — again and again
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Culture Why ‘tragedy’ is not the right word to describe the deadly strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy
Tragedy, as Iris Murdoch informed us, obscures the nature of real events
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