Mikael Tossavainen on “Judefrågan”: Debatt om antisemitism i 1930-talets Sverige
Casting a Dark Light
“Judefrågan”: Debatt om antisemitism i 1930-talets Sverige (“The Jewish Question”: A Debate about Anti-Semitism in Sweden in the 1930s), by Henrik Bachner, Atlantis, 2009, 382 pp. [Swedish]
Reviewed by Mikael Tossavainen
Asaf Romirowsky on Palestine Betrayed, by Efraim Karsh
Exposing the Nakba Myth
Palestine Betrayed, by Efraim Karsh, Yale University Press, 2010, 336 pp.
Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky
Leslie Wagner on The Palestinian Right to Israel, by Alex Grobman
Rights as a Zero-Sum Game
The Palestinian Right to Israel, by Alex Grobman, Balfour Books, 2010, 326 pp.
Reviewed by Leslie Wagner
Manfred Gerstenfeld on The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative on Israeli Leadership, by Yehuda Avner
A Rich Retrospective
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative on Israeli Leadership, by Yehuda Avner, Toby Press, 2010. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Anne Herzberg on The Judge in a Democracy, by Aharon Barak
An Activist’s Disappointing Evasions
The Judge in a Democracy, by Aharon Barak, Princeton University Press, 2006, 332 pp.
Reviewed by Anne Herzberg
Arms for the King and His Family: The U.S. Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
The U.S. State Department has notified Congress of the biggest arms sale in American history – a $60 billion purchase by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Totally offensive in nature, the package, with its attack planes, helicopters, and “bunker-buster” bombs, was clearly designed to deter Iran.
The Expulsion of the Jews from Muslim Countries, 1920-1970: A History of Ongoing Cruelty and Discrimination
Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States. Today, they and their descendents form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel’s population.
Matthias Küntzel on The Rise of Nuclear Iran
The West’s Iranian Policy: What Exactly Went Wrong?
The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, by Dore Gold, Regnery, 2009, 256 pp.
Reviewed by Matthias Küntzel
Anti-Semitism in Hungary
Anti-Semitism reemerged in Hungary after the transition to democracy in 1989. There is, however, a notable difference between its earlier manifestations in the 1990s and recent developments. Traditional anti-Semitism has resurfaced and received an institutional framework, while verbal and physical aggression against Jews and Roma has intensified.
Sarah Schmidt on American Jewry’s Comfort Level: Present and Future, by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme
America’s Jews: An Evolving Community
American Jewry’s Comfort Level: Present and Future, by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the American Jewish Committee, 2010, 263 pp.
Reviewed by Sarah Schmidt
Post-Soviet Jewry: Critical Issues
To observe the Jewish population in the successor states to the Soviet Union is to be bewildered, so numerous and complex are the variables that define this large and remarkable segment of world Jewry.
Chanah Shapira on Why Are Jews Liberals?, by Norman Podhoretz
Ideology Trumps Reality
Why Are Jews Liberals?, by Norman Podhoretz, Doubleday, 2009. Reviewed by Chanah Shapira
Weisband on Mission, Meaning, and Money: How the Joint Distribution Committee Became a Fundraising Innovator
Analyzing Cultural and Organizational Change in the JDC
Mission, Meaning, and Money: How the Joint Distribution Committee Became a Fundraising Innovator. Reviewed by Howard M. Weisband
Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips
Reason, the West, the Jews, and Their Defamers
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips, Encounter Books, 2010, 457 pp.
Reviewed by Rivkah Fishman-Duker
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Hugo Logtenberg and Marcel Wiegman, Job Cohen – Burgemeester van Nederland
Job Cohen – A Politician of Expedience
Hugo Logtenberg and Marcel Wiegman, Job Cohen – Burgemeester van Nederland (Job Cohen – Mayor of the Netherlands), Nieuw Amsterdam, 2010. [Dutch]
Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
