Interview with Jehudi Kinar Belgium has a complex political system that is difficult to analyze. It is a federal state and there are tensions between its two major populations, the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons. The country’s attitudes toward … [Read More]
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In October 2011 it became known that the German EVZ Foundation had financed two high school student programs that promoted hatred of Israel. This state foundation was created to compensate Holocaust slave workers and fight contemporary anti-Semitism. In one program … [Read More]
As a rule book reviews deal with the author’s basic message. Nonetheless, a book may contain information seemingly of secondary importance which can turn out to be of considerable interest, particularly for a journal devoted to Jewish political studies. One … [Read More]
Stephen D. Smith is a Christian theologian in his early forties. Together with his brother James, he founded the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre near Nottingham, England, which opened in 1995. Smith presently heads the Shoah Foundation Institute in Los Angeles … [Read More]
No. 117 – On the occasion of International Holocaust Memorial Day The Holocaust has become a symbol of absolute evil in Western society. This has happened gradually over the past decades. Many people increasingly mention and discuss the Holocaust. At the … [Read More]
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich, University Of Nebraska Press, 2012. 625 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld Historian Robert Wistrich, who holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the … [Read More]
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich, University Of Nebraska Press, 2012. 625 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld Historian Robert Wistrich, who holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the … [Read More]
Moral relativists justify immoral practices. Such justifications can lead to extreme implementations of moral relativism, for example, equating the values of the Nazis with those of the Allies, indirectly justifying the Holocaust, or justifying it by stating that the Holocaust … [Read More]
Manfred Gerstenfeld reviews: Muslimischer Antisemitismus: Eine Aktuelle Gefahr [Muslim Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism: A Present Danger], by Robert S. Wistrich, Edition Critic, 2011, 161 pp. Published in the Jewish Political Studies Review Vol 24 3-4: Fall 2012 Historian Robert Wistrich holds the … [Read More]
Manfred Gerstenfeld reviews: Hetty Berg and Bart Wallet, eds., Wie niet Weg is, is gezien; Joods Nederland na 1945 [Who Is Not Hidden Is Seen:1 Jewish Netherlands after 1945], Zwolle, The Netherlands: Waanders/JHM, 2010, 224 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld … [Read More]