The Eichmann Trial
Deborah Lipstad transports her readers back in time to Jerusalem sixteen years after May 8, 1945 V-E Day and the end of the Shoah, and thirteen years after May 14, 1948 when Israel became an independent state.
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Book Discussion: The Great House
by Peter Shapiro
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A reader of Nicole Krauss's novel "Great House" in my judgment will either like it or dislike it but there will be no middle ground.
Galilee Diary: Non-collective memory
In recent decades, trips to Poland for 11th graders have become de rigueur in high schools in middle class communities.
Galilee Diary: Summer holiday
It was forbidden to allow the posthumous destruction of Man, God, and - this even for the most secularist of Jews - that hope without which a Jew cannot live, the hope which is the gift of Judaism to all humanity.
