Power, Deception and Comedy: The Politics of Exile in the Book of Esther by Alexander Green
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) The Book of Esther can be interpreted as a political work with its own inherent logic and integrity. While the existence of the divine is not denied in the narrative, it appears to be beyond the reach and understanding of a people struggling for survival. In this sense, […]
Sanctions or strike: Five Israeli experts weigh in on Iran
Seven years ago, Professor Efraim Inbar wrote a document whose bottom line could be summed up as advocating for Israel to attack Iran to stop it from attaining a nuclear capability. This week, Inbar, a political scientist who currently serves as the director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, is somewhat encouraged that more and more Israelis have now reached the same conclusion.
Michelle Mazel on Crossroads: Jewish Artists during the Holocaust, a catalog of the exhibition held at the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, October 2012
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) The exhibition held at the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest is another milestone in the ongoing efforts to chronicle what happened during the Holocaust in that country. In the turbulent Romanian artistic scene on the eve of World War II, dozens of Jewish painters were […]
Michael Widlanski on the Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) What is the key to understanding the Middle East? Sometimes a perceptive outsider can grasp the political culture of a state or a region better than a native observer or an academic. Lee Smith is such a person, offering a revealing anecdote for each occasion. Smith is knowledgeable […]
Leslie Wagner on The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History Edited by William D. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles, and Hilary L. Rubinstein
Michelle Mazel on Le siecle identitaire ; la fin des Etats post-coloniaux (The century of identities : the end of post-colonial states by Ferhat Mehenni
Guido Weiss on Fighting For the Survival of the Jewish Nation: A New Voice For Israel by Jeremy Ben-Ami
The First Year of the Egyptian Revolution: Assessment and Predictions
Few in Egypt believe that the army is sincere about the transfer of power to the civilians.
Asaf Romirowsky on Deception: Betraying the Peace Process by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Yisrael Medad on The Founding Fathers of Zionism, Noble OK: Balfour Books and Jerusalem by Benzion Netanyahu
Johannes Gerloff on Zeal for Zion. Christians, Jews, & the Idea of The Promised Land by Shalom Goldman
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Never Again, Yet Again by Stephen D. Smith
Stephen D. Smith is a Christian theologian in his early forties. Together with his brother James, he founded the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre near Nottingham, England, which opened in 1995. Smith presently heads the Shoah Foundation Institute in Los Angeles where the Spielberg archives are located. These contain more than one hundred thousand hours of […]
