Philo-Semitism
“The least anti-Semitic country in the world.”
Johannes Reuchlin.
What a new biographical novel misses.
He laid the problems of the Middle East at the feet of the dictators who brutalized the Arab people.
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer.
And their translator’s ambivalent attitude toward Jews.
Bayard Rustin: Quaker, Zionist, and friend of Golda Meir.
A new book threads together a web of connections.
Anti-Semite or philo-Semite? The master spy novelist’s final mystery.
Exploring the Anglo-Jewish affinity.
Jonathan Miller was Jewish. Clive James wasn’t. James was the one who liked Jews.
“It’s fashionable to have a Jewish friend—the way it’s fashionable to have a gay friend.”
Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.