Review of Dennis Ross’ ‘Doomed to succeed’
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN October 22, 2015 In April of 1981 Syria moved batteries of surface-to-air missiles into the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. At the time, Syria was occupying Lebanon, […]
Category Archives: Book reviews
Book review: Historiography of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine on APril 8 IN THE early 1990s when Yugoslavia began to disintegrate and a brutal war broke out between Serbs and Bosnians, the […]
Book review: The Yemenite tragedy
Review of The “Magic Carpet” Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth, by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Sussex Academic Press, £67.50 / $89.95, published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine January 10 By SETH […]
The Hero of Hitler’s dreams
A groundbreaking new study situates the Turkish revolution of the 1920s amidst Nazi political thought • SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine On October 30, two […]
Review of Dror’s ‘Israeli Statecraft’
Book review By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Assuring the security of Israel and the Jewish People as a whole is an existential imperative for Israeli statecraft, at whatever cost to Israel […]
Review of Kai Bird’s ‘The Good Spy’
The most naive man in the Middle East? 07/03/2014 15:22 By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In May 1964, the World’s Fair was held in New York City. At the Jordanian Pavilion, a […]
Review of new book on Abba Hillel Silver
The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel By Ofer Shiff, Syracuse University Press Reviewed by SETH J. FRANTZMAN In late 1952, US-Jewish leader Abba Hillel Silver […]
Review: The most naive man in the Middle East?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Review of Kai Bird’s ‘The Good Spy’ In May 1964, the World’s Fair was held in New York City. At the Jordanian Pavilion, a mural depicted […]
Book review of John Judis book ‘Genesis’
Taking Truman to the woodshed Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine April 19 By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 16, 1945 – just two weeks after the end of […]
Book Review: Gordis on Begin’s enduring odyssey
Published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine, April 4, 2014 In 1977, not long after Menachem Begin formed the first Likud-led government, there was worry among some advisers and American-Jewish leaders […]
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