Free eBook: Defining Moments in Israeli History: 1967–2017
Which event most defined the last half-century of the Israeli experience?...
Thursday, April 19, 2018
History Tag
How the Six-Day War Veterans Felt: Revisiting ‘Soldiers’ Talk’
The candidness and emotional vulnerability of Israeli soldiers is of such renown today that there’s even a pejorative for it: yorim ve'bochim, shooting and crying....
Interview | Yuval Harari
Until 2011, Yuval Noah Harari was an obscure professor of medieval military history at Hebrew University. Then he took up the challenge of teaching an introductory course in world history when no other faculty member wanted to teach it. The result was a book, Sapiens:...
Book Review | The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age by Steven Weitzman
In a sermon delivered during Passover in 2001, David Wolpe, a distinguished Conservative rabbi in Los Angeles, told his congregation that there was no reliable evidence that the Exodus from Egypt ever took place, and that even if it did, it almost certainly did not...
Book Review | The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
Unraveling Bulgaria’s Dark Past Ballantine Books 2017 / 496 pp. / $28 Bulgaria. How little thought I had ever given to Bulgaria, but here it is in the vivid, fast-paced, fascinating new novel The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova. Author of the best-selling novel The Historian, Kostova...
Defining Moments in Israeli History
Which event most defined the last half-century of the Israeli experience?...
A Rare Peek Into a Renowned Library’s Vault
The extraordinary works in this exhibition are rarely seen, and this is their first time in America. ...
Is Germany Moving Away From Holocaust Angst?
The notion that Germany has special responsibilities due to the Holocaust influences Merkel’s outlook on the world significantly. But this is not to say everything is rosy. ...