Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023
Editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; editorial director and publisher, 1995–2005.
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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...