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Fund Helps Persecuted Scholars Reach Safe Havens
In a seemingly different life, Ahmed Subhy Mansour was a scholar at Cairo’s venerated Al-Azhar University. He studied the history of dictatorship in Islam and the place of death and paradise in the Koran. But some aspect of his research did not go over well with the authorities, and in 1987 he was fired from…
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Handing Over the Reins
On April 12, in one of his rare press conferences, President Bush laid out a road map on America’s approach to Iraq’s future. Just two days later, he agreed to change — really reverse — the route. What happened? Much of Bush’s opening statement at the press conference consisted of what was once famously labeled…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Schumer Speaks: The appearance of New York Senator Charles Schumer at a fundraiser for the All Stars Project, a theater group founded by fringe politician Lenora Fulani, is being criticized by some New Yorkers. “What needs to be asked is, ‘Why, Mr. Schumer, are you addressing a group that only recently staged a show about…
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Sephardic and Mizrahi Women Lift Up Their Veils
The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage Edited by Loolwa Khazzoom Seal Press, 256 pages, $16.95. * * *| ‘Today,” writes Loolwa Khazzoom in the introduction to her new book of essays by Sephardic and Mizrahi women, “North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women continue to…
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Israelis Celebrate an Emerging Consensus on Independence Day
As Israel’s 56th Independence Day approaches, stock-taking easily produces negatives. Continuing suicide bombs, unbridled hatred of Israel and Jews throughout much of the Arab world, international condemnation of the Jewish state, and unresolved economic and social issues do not make for a gala celebration. This year, while we give thanks for the existence of the…
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These Tricks Are Not Just for Kids
The Jewish Book of Fables By Eliezer Shtaynbarg Edited and translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant Syracuse University Press, 256 pages, $34.95. * * *| Eliezer Shtaynbarg (1880-1932) taught children Yiddish and Hebrew and wrote and directed plays for them in his native Bessarabia. Learned in biblical and Talmudic literature, he also edited a…
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Network Beams America Into Arab Living Rooms
WASHINGTON — After two months on the air, Alhurra, America’s Arabic satellite TV network, has become a favorite punching bag of Arab commentators and religious leaders throughout the Middle East. Cartoonists ridicule it. Columnists dismiss it. One Saudi cleric went so far as to issue an Islamic edict outlawing Muslims from watching the network or…
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Writer’s Latest Novel Is More ‘Fiddler’ Than ‘Tevye’
The Outside World By Tova Mirvis Alfred A. Knopf, 304 pages, $24. * * *| ‘Tzippy Goldman was a good girl,” but she was trapped: She wanted to scream, to throw a fit, to escape the confines of Brooklyn and shidduch dating and, most of all, her wedding-obsessed mother. As Tova Mirvis’s new novel opens,…
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A Female Odysseus Tells Her Story
This month, Mercury House publishes Zosia Goldberg’s memoir, “Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust,” as told to Hilton Obenzinger. The full introduction, by novelist Paul Auster, is printed here with permission. ‘I thought fast. I was lucky and got an idea.” These two short sentences come toward the end of “Running Through Fire,”…
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Notes From Underground
Journey Through the Inferno By Adam Boren Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 200 pages, $15.95. * * *| Yesterday: My Story By Hadassah Rosensaft United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 207 pages, $15.95. * * *| A principal value of Holocaust survivor memoirs is that they focus on the victim as subject rather than object. They…
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That Precarious Moment When Individual Memories Join the Collective Mind
Laura Brahm is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Aftermath of the Holocaust By Eva Hoffman PublicAffairs Books, 288 pages, $25. * * *| Several years ago, writer Eva Hoffman sat in a dreary New York restaurant with an elderly man she’d never met before. He’d sought her…
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