Jack Fischel
By Jack Fischel
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Culture German Book Redefines ‘Victimhood,’ Problematically
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 By Jörg Friedrich Columbia University Press, 552 pages, $34.95. In the aftermath of World War II, Germany attempted to come to terms with the Holocaust. But ultranationalists were not contrite about the recent past, and contended that the killing of hundreds of thousands of German civilians during the…
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News How American Eugenicists Helped Shape Nazi Tactics
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign To Create a Master Race By Edwin Black Four Walls Eight Windows, 518 pages, $26. * * *| Edwin Black, the author of the award-winning “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation” (Crown, 2001), has written a provocative new…
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News FLASH FRAMES
The Dialogues of Time and Entropy By Aryeh Lev Stollman Riverhead, 208 pages, $24.95. —— The new story collection by Aryeh Lev Stollman demonstrates the power of narrative to reveal the complexity, pain and beauty of human experience. Some of the stories illuminate, like flashes of lightning, the strong forces that persist beneath the apparently…
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro’s Judaism was not why Kamala Harris snubbed him, new book claims
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