A professor at the University of Houston and the Women’s Institute of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Theater In ‘Waiting for Godot,’ the tragedy and comedy of the Jewish experience
Samuel Beckett's classic baffled Miami audiences in 1956. Today, it couldn't seem more a propos.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
'Israel: What Went Wrong' sees Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, considering how his birthplace changed
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Opinion Winds of change are in the air in Hungary and at the Vatican. Will they reach as far as Israel?
Viktor Orban's defeat and Pope Leo's homilies promise a return to common decency that Benjamin Netanyahu is still resisting
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Film & TV He committed murder today. Or maybe yesterday. He doesn’t know.
A new film adaptation of Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' finds the world as strange and absurd as it ever was.
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Opinion This Jewish philosopher knows our politics are absurd — and why that’s a good thing
In his underappreciated essays, Thomas Nagel counsels us against taking the world, our ourselves, too seriously
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Opinion Benjamin Disraeli once saved Britain’s monarchy — the current one may be beyond repair
Today's crises at Buckingham Palace have created problems that even Britain's first Jewish prime minister could not have solved
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Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
An unsettling memo from a Texas university recalls France's lurch into authoritarianism during WWII
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Opinion Hannah Arendt could have anticipated the Trump administration’s lies in Minnesota — and elsewhere
The Jewish philosopher’s essay on ‘Lying in Politics’ applies as much to current politics as it did to Vietnam
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