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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Culture Why there’s nothing normal about Israel normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia
As Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt would remind us, choosing the lesser of two evils still means choosing evil
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Culture In an unsettling account of French collaboration with Nazis, disturbing parallels with today’s politics
The case of Marshal Pétain may be history — but that history is far from over
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Culture Can a Jewish philosopher held prisoner of war by the Nazis help explain the power of Trump’s mug shot?
Emmanuel Levinas' ideas about the mystical meaning of faces lend new depth to the mug shot seen around the world
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Culture In remote North Dakota, endless sky, a few gravestones, and the remnants of a little-known Jewish history
While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few — like the Greenbergs — tried their luck as homesteaders
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Culture Leading his star-studded cast of schnooks, Donald Trump is producing his very own ‘Springtime for Hitler’
After yet another indictment, life in Trumpworld is uncannily imitating Mel Brooks' 'Producers'
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Culture Once upon a time, eager acolytes thought their false Messiah could make their country great again — sound familiar?
On the strange but insistent parallels between Sabbatai Sevi of Smyrna and Donald Trump of Queens
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Culture Comparing his indictment to Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is right for extremely wrong reasons
The indicted former president's glib accusations unwittingly invoke the specter of the philosopher Carl Schmitt
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Culture To understand the blindness of our Supreme Court, look to the land of Alfred Dreyfus
As France burns, we can witness the consequences of so-called 'race neutrality'
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