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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]