Our Own Worst Enemy
From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel
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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