Books to Celebrate Israel at 70
Seven books on Israel recommended by 70 great thinkers. Your Yom Ha-atzma'ut reading list.
The Gentile Jewess
"Am I Gentile? Am I a Jewess? Both and neither. What am I? I am what I am.” Muriel Spark at 100.
Law, Justice, and Memory in Poland
Under the Law and Justice Party, Poland has just criminalized the life stories of its Jewish survivors. Here’s why.
Reviews
God’s Law in Human Hands
A Judean, a Stoic, a Jewish philosopher, a Jesus follower, and a rabbi walk into a seminar room at Yale, and Professor Christine Hayes asks them, “What do you mean when you say divine law?”
Exchange
Jews, Revolutionism, and Doublethink
Even in the Gulag, it was difficult to give up the belief in the Revolution. Take Evgenia Ginzburg, for example . . .
Exchange
In (Partial) Defense of Doublethink
How does one survive psychologically under the control of chaotic evil? Take Evgenia Ginszburg, for example . . .
The Last Word
I was born with the State, in 5708. The heroic narrative of Israel, miraculously risen from the ashes, was planted in my marrow.
From Shabbtai at Seventy by Stuart Schoffman | Spring 2018
Telling the Whole Truth: Albert Memmi
"I continue to think, in spite of frequent hesitations, that I must tell not only the truth but the whole truth. And this will be not only my aesthetic signature . . . but my most important political contribution.”
