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Hard RoadTuesday, December 14, 2010 by Blake Eskin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An interview with Vasily Grossman's English translator on the shifting legacy of the great author of Life and Fate.Does a Palestinian State Mean War?
Monday, December 13, 2010 by Jonathan Schanzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A unilaterally declared "two-state solution" may be in the offing, but that hardly means peace will follow.
Christopher Hitchens’s Jewish ProblemMonday, December 13, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It has been an open secret for years that the celebrated columnist and author Christopher Hitchens has a problem with the Jews. No one much likes to talk about it, and for various reasons his journalistic peers have remained silent on the subject. But it is nonetheless the case.
Monday, December 13, 2010 by Modris Eksteins | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on cultural and artistic life in wartime Paris undermines the still-widespread belief that the "true France" never collaborated with the Nazis.More Shadow than Light?
Monday, December 13, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An acclaimed exhibition on the achievements of medieval Muslim science is as manipulative as it is illuminating.Rooting for the Home Team
Monday, December 13, 2010 by Maureen Mullen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent interest in the role of Jews in baseball points to a broader story of "once-marginalized people finding their way into the American mainstream."The Myth of Patriarchy?
Monday, December 13, 2010 by Marc B. Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From divorce to women's roles to co-ed heders: a historian corrects misconceptions about 19th-century East European Jewry.The Kabbalist Anarchist
Friday, December 10, 2010 by Yoel Matveev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The kibbutz movement and Martin Buber were only two of many exemplars of Jewish leftism influenced by the ideas of Gustav Landauer.Cherchez l’homme
Friday, December 10, 2010 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Simone de Beauvoir's affair with the American Jewish novelist Nelson Algren gave her everything she never got from Sartre.
The Mood of the OudFriday, December 10, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Arab elements continue to animate many forms of Jewish expression that, originally rooted in Arab countries, have been transplanted into Israeli society.