The physicist wasn’t the target of an anti-Semitic McCarthyite witch hunt.
How socialists traded Jews for pigs.
March 1968.
And its importance for Jews.
A rare interview with the notorious terrorist.
“My Judaism lives in everything that I start and that I am.”
Smuggled political literature from Jewish New Yorkers helped.
“The refusal to be bound by rules, any rules, turned children against their elders, impelled them to . . . destroy their brains with drugs,. . .
Julien Benda’s scribes without Torah.
Though they seem to have no qualms about Russia’s occupation of its neighbor.
The children of Jewish Communists needed a therapeutic process to work through the effects of growing up in a political cult. They didn’t get it.
Watch our recording of the classic Russian Jewish stories. Then stick around for the discussion with Natan Sharansky, Ruth Wisse, and Gary Saul Morson.
The great Russian Jewish writer was caught between revolution and daily life, Bolsheviks and Jews, a desire to kill and an inability to pull the trigger. Did he ever choose?
The author of “The Eternal Return of Ethel Rosenberg” joins us for a discussion about his subject’s unending—and false—air of innocence.