Albert Murray, Salo Baron, and the lachrymose conception of history.

Abe Saperstein, the shortest man in the hall of fame.

Friendship and the American story.

Replace zero-sum “anti-racism” with mutual respect and understanding.

“It was the Jewish family who instilled in me singing from the heart.”

What Albert Murray shared with the German political philosopher.

A dialogue on prejudice in 21st-century America.

After being torn apart by anti-Semites, its restoration is threatened by woke anti-Americanism.

The music of Thomas LaRue.

A key component of both groups’ identities.

“He sings with a real Jewish turn, with a real Jewish moan and sigh.”

Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and the “opiate of the Arabs.”

“I have always felt at home in the Jewish world.”

Balancing the universal and the particular.