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Anglo-Jewry: A Contradiction in Terms?

If Jews are, in the words of literary critic Leslie Fiedler, the natural voice of modern America, Jewish writers in Britain remain the voice of the permanent counter-culture.The Student of Sadism

Although many balked at her rejection of the notion of evil, Gitta Sereny's openness with the Nazi war criminals she interviewed led them to tell her things that they would never tell anyone else. Who Killed Hebrew in America?

Who could have foretold an eruption of Hebrew-generative genius on the American continent—which, having no offspring, then came to nothing?The Munich Files

Files just released on the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics show that the terrorists received assistance from German neo-Nazis—who were let off virtually scot-free.“Rabbi, do we Jews believe in reincarnation?”

"Knowing full well that much of Kabbalah, philosophy, and even Midrash does accept the notion of reincarnation, I tried to muster a definitive 'No!'"  Return to Vienna

Jews who grew up in cosmopolitan pre-war Vienna came back after the war to find themselves strangers at home. Yet Austria's capital still fascinates Jewish writers.               Keep Religion out of Israeli Adoptions

When conversion becomes a condition for adoption, the process is easily distorted—by pressures on rabbinical conversion court judges and prospective parents.    Romancing the Rosenbergs

When it comes to anti-American spies like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed fifty-nine years ago today, technical guilt may now be acknowledged but, for the most part, moral guilt is not.Disunited Synagogue

While some at the New Statesman may still believe Jews to be a powerful enemy within, Anglo-Jewry has never agreed on anything—whether religious practice, Zionism, or the admittance of Jewish refugees.