Laurence Zuckerman
By Laurence Zuckerman
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Culture A Pacifist Leader Who Was More Prophet Than Politician
Judah Leib Magnes may just be the most important American Jewish leader you have never heard of. Born in Northern California in 1877, the baseball-loving Magnes was integral to the creation and development of nearly all major American Jewish organizations, from the American Jewish Committee to Hadassah. He was also one of the principal founders…
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Culture Harry and the Holy Land
A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel By Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh HarperCollins, 448 pages, $27.99. It is one of the great ironies of history that a little-known “Midwest Baptist” whose mother-in-law would not allow him to entertain Jews at home, and who scribbled antisemitic diatribes in his diary, was…
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Culture Forward Books
At the end of the classic John Ford Western, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” after Senator Ransom Stoddard (played by James Stewart) confesses that he is not the genuine hero people have made him out to be, a local newspaper editor gives this immortal reply: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes…
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