Peter Savodnik
By Peter Savodnik
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Culture Lee Harvey Oswald and the Jews
Before he killed the president of the United States, Lee Harvey Oswald was a metal lathe operator at a radio and television factory in Minsk. He had defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959, hoping to take part in a revolution that, unbeknownst to him, had been snuffed out three decades earlier, when Stalin…
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Culture Revivifying Identity
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy By Natan Sharansky, with Shira Wolosky Weiss PublicAffairs, 304 pages, $26.95. Everyone knows something terrible is happening. This much seems self-evident. There were the attacks of September 11, 2001, followed by the incomplete overthrow of the Taliban, followed by the invasion of Iraq, set against the backdrop…
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