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Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur was for many years head of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London, chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and university professor at Georgetown University. His most recent book, a collection of essays, should have appeared as Optimistic Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist but appeared as Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist (Routledge).

Summer 2017

A Dashing Medievalist

Walter Laqueur

Ernst Katorowicz had great courage and old-world personal charm—his Berkeley students were mesmerized by him.

Winter 2016

Remembering the Scholems

Walter Laqueur

New books about Gershom Scholem and his brother Werner evoke memories of 28 Abarbanel Street in Jerusalem.

Spring 2015

Love in the Shadow of Death

Walter Laqueur

This is a sad story, one that begins with Sarah Wildman’s discovery among the papers of her grandfather, a physician in Massachusetts, of a file of letters dating back to 1939–1942.

Summer 2013

From Russia with Complications

Walter Laqueur

In what ways is the Israel of the Russian aliyah an extension of the old and new Russia, and to the degree that it is, does this constitute a problem? A valuable report on the present state of affairs.

Winter 2012

The Kibbutz, Post-Utopia

Walter Laqueur

One hundred years ago, Yosef Bussel, Yosef Baratz, eight other young men, and two young women arrived in Umm Juni on the southern shore of Lake Tiberias. There they established a kommuna, a small agricultural settlement that was to become the first kibbutz. A new Hebrew book celebrates the centennial history of this great experiment.