Glenn Altschuler
By Glenn Altschuler
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Culture Where Jewish Rights And Human Rights Intersect And Diverge
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century By James Loeffler Yale University Press, 384 pages, $32.50 Following Winston Churchill’s prediction in 1942 that the war against fascism would “end with the enthronement of human rights,” the phrase, which had rarely been used in the discourse of international law, began to gain currency….
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Culture Julius Rosenwald Didn’t Repair The World — But He Tried Harder Than Most
JULIUS ROSENWALD: REPAIRING THE WORLD By Hasia R. Diner Yale University Press. 237 pp. $25. In a speech to the Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago, of which he served as president beginning in 1908, Julius Rosenwald outlined the life he might have led. As part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Rosenwald pointed out,…
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Culture King Solomon, The Unknown Story
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom: By Steven Weitzman Yale University Press, 240 pages, $25 Many Christians and Jews believe that the wisdom of King Solomon extended well beyond ordinary human perception. A gift from God, it allowed him to understand the hidden forces of nature, the inner workings of human motivation and the mysteries of…
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Culture A Casanova of Causes
KOESTLER: THE LITERARY AND POLITICAL ODYSSEY OF A TWENTIETH-CENTURY SKEPTIC Michael Scammell Random House, 689 pages, $35 In 1925, Arthur Koestler, a 20-year-old Hungarian journalist, began to believe that politics was “above all futile” — and that there was “more truth” in philosophy. Zionism, he thought, was the field where he could get the most…
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