Universalism

Esperanto’s greatest enthusiasts were Jews, and its greatest enemies anti-Semites.

James R. Russell
Feb. 11 2022 12:01AM

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.

Saul Jay Singer
March 18 2020 12:01AM

Jews’ brand of particularism angers messianists of all kinds.

Aug. 31 2017 12:01AM

Against the modern doctrine of fairness over all.

July 20 2017 12:01AM

Between Princeton and Auschwitz.

June 26 2017 12:01AM

From some of its founding ideas to some of its most thoughtful and essential institutions, American Jews have given the Jewish state much to be proud of.

May 30 2017 12:01AM

A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”

March 21 2017 12:01AM

And why Ben Rhodes was appointed to the Holocaust Memorial Council.

Jan. 24 2017 12:01AM

Pinḥas Eliyahu Hurwitz’s bestseller remains popular among Ḥaredim today.

Yitzhak Melamed
Nov. 1 2016 12:01AM

Ludwik Zamenhof’s world language.

David Mikics
Oct. 31 2016 12:01AM

Universalizing the Holocaust to undermine the Jewish state.

May 5 2016 12:01AM

The theological tension within an ancient prayer.

Reuven Kimelman
Oct. 26 2015 12:01AM

On the “stubborn” nature of the Jews.

Francis Nataf
May 21 2015 12:01AM

Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.

Yehudah Mirsky
March 13 2015 12:01AM