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From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel

"America’s storyteller" puts a progressive spin on America’s stories.

My newly published book, “Auschwitz on the Potomac 1943: Hillel Kook, The Attempt to Save European Jewry, and the Birth of the Israeli Nation,” is the culminating work of my 45 years of research and analysis.he events of the Holocaust and the American...

On the 75th anniversary of the resurrection of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel, it is Szyk’s unwavering and enduring love of Israel which serves as a model of perpetual devotion and action.

Arthur Szyk begins his illustrated Haggadah by inscribing on its decorative frontispiece “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither.” The ancient psalmist’s promise became a personal pledge for Szyk which flowed through his ink and blood. In a mid-1930s pen and ink self-portrait, (fig 1) these words appear with the artist

Editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; editorial director and publisher, 1995–2005.

Saving 200,000 European Jews.

Finally we got the whole story: Americans hate Jews and others.  The nation's mood has not changed, the past is the present, the present is the past. This according to Ken Burns.

One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns’ new documentary series about the Holocaust is Otto, a Jewish man seen in the series’ first episode who tries to secure passage to America for his family but gets stymied by the country’s fierce anti-immigration legislation. It isn’t until the… Read More »

The massacre of European Jews occurred during World War II in Europe. To historians, the question has always been, how was this possible? And more important, from an American perspective, it is: What was America’s response to that event?When I arrived...