Harold Brackman
By Harold Brackman
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Opinion Letter | Sanders ignores anti-Semitism for his own political ambition
Dear Editor: I have read Joel Swanson’s recent pieces in the Forward speculating why he thinks Sen. Bernie Sanders scares the beejesus out of American Jews. Until now, I only knew Swanson as a scholar of modern Jewish intellectual history, especially of a fine analysis of Bernard Lazare, who made the transition from what might…
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Letters Don’t Blame The Jews For North Korea’s Bomb
Dear Editor: Yoel Matveev’s “The Jewish Designers of North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb” is a fascinating read, historically, accurate, but it nevertheless it leaves me queasy — and not, I think, because I am a parochial-minded Jewish historian. If you want to blame Americans (including émigré scientists not just Jews but Enrico Fermi, non-Jewish but with…
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