Review of Oren Kessler’s Palestine 1936: The Palestinian-Zionist Conflict as...
By Claudia Moscovici In his new book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, New York, 2023), Oren Kessler traces the roots of...
View ArticleKreisky and Wiesenthal: Review of Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity
By Claudia Moscovici Although Bruno Kreisky and Simon Wiesenthal were political rivals, I deliberately chose the title “Kreisky and Wiesenthal” for this article to highlight two very different ways of...
View ArticleA ray of hope in the middle of despair: Review of The Hope Raisers by Nihar...
The Talmud states: “Whoever destroys a soul, it is as if he destroyed the whole world. And whoever saves a life, it is as if he saved the whole world” (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9, Babylonian Talmud,...
View ArticleThe U.S.-Israel Alliance and Friendship: A Conversation about Diplomacy with...
By Claudia Moscovici We are already very familiar with the policy of isolationism during the 1940’s, “America First”, whose main spokesman was the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, a rightwing...
View ArticleFighting for women’s (and human) rights: Brenda Feigen’s Not One of the Boys
by Claudia Moscovici If young women today harbor any doubts about whether or not the feminist movements in the sixties, seventies and eighties were necessary, I would urge them to read Brenda...
View ArticleGovernor Whitmer please open movie theaters (with the mask mandate and social...
Governor Whitmer please open movie theaters (with the mask mandate and social Like many other people, I really miss the social experience of going to the movie theater with family and friends....
View ArticleYoung Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new pro-Israel “Tribe”, HaShevet
Young Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new pro-Israel “Tribe”, HaShevet By Claudia Moscovici The Jews, though perhaps a “tribe” (HaShevet), have always had significant internal differences. A people...
View ArticleThe Jewish National Fund: Growing Zionism
The Jewish National Fund: Growing Zionism by Claudia Moscovici The Holocaust underscored for the Jewish people the necessity—and, many would argue, the historic right–of having their own nation....
View ArticleReview of Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant Friends
Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant Friends: An homage to friendship among women and to writing By Claudia Moscovici It is unspeakably sad to lose one’s best friends. Even more so, perhaps, when the...
View ArticleAdela Cojab Moadeb: Fighting BDS and anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses
Adela Cojab Moadeb: Fighting BDS and anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses By Claudia Moscovici In her article in the New York Post (December 14, 2019) about her fight against anti-Semitism on New...
View ArticleA Literary Challenge: Balzac Versus Stendhal via Brombert
by Claudia Moscovici The French literary critic of Romanian origin, Dan Burcea, issued a challenge on his blog, Lettres Capitales, to fellow writers around the globe: Which do we most identify...
View ArticleA Spiritual Visionary: Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mind, Heart, Soul by...
A Spiritual Visionary: Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mind Heart, Soul by Edward K. Kaplan By Claudia Moscovici Edward K. Kaplan’s monumental new biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham...
View ArticleThe Importance of Holocaust education and the Never Again Education Act
This article was originally published on History News Network: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173922 by Claudia Moscovici, author of Holocaust Memories (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) One of...
View ArticleThe Turning Point of the War: Review of 1941 by Andrew Nagorski
The Turning Point of the War: Review of 1941 by Andrew Nagorski by Claudia Moscovici We tend to think of D-Day as the turning point of WWII: the day the Allies landed in Normandy to liberate France,...
View ArticleNo Friends but the Mountains: Kae Bahar’s eloquent call for Kurdish nationhood
No Friends but the mountains: Documentary Filmmaker Kae Bahar’s eloquent call for Kurdish nationhood by Claudia Moscovici Documentary film director Kae Bahar’s No Friends but the Mountains is a...
View ArticleA precedent for the Holocaust: The Armenian genocide and The Promise
by Claudia Moscovici As Peter Balakian points out in the Preface of his book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian genocide and America’s response (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), the Holocaust had a...
View ArticleSurvivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale
Survivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale Michael Bornstein’s Holocaust survival story is the stuff that legends are made of. A few years ago, Bornstein ran across a photo of footage taken by Soviet...
View ArticleA First-Class Experience: CEO Paul Glantz re-Emagines Movie Theaters
A First-Class Experience: CEO Paul Glantz re-Emagines Movie Theaters by Claudia Moscovici Ten years ago, many thought that movie theaters would go by the wayside, the way the video rental industry...
View ArticleAdvance Praise for Holocaust Memories: An Anthology of Holocaust Memoirs,...
This book fills a present and mounting need for all readers interested in the Holocaust, including scholars and teachers. With the literature about that unprecedented crime becoming steadily more...
View ArticleBetween Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time
Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time By Claudia Moscovici During WWII much of Europe was caught in a vice between fanaticism and terror; between Hitler and Stalin. The...
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