Mass ethnic-cleansing of Jews is the 20th century’s real legacy
By Seth J. Frantzman It always strikes me when someone mentions the Jewish history of a place while traveling or in books or discussions of their family history. It almost […]
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Zoabi, Ben-Gurion, Leibowitz, Arendt, Einstein? They all compared Israel to 1930s
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The media in Israel have found a video of Knesset member Haneen Zoabi speaking in Amsterdam, and the outrage has been quick to form. She is […]
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 […]
Nonsense, ‘The Atlantic’ and Islamic scholars
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a brewing controversy over a cover story by The Atlantic. The major article by Graeme Wood is a slick piece of journalism by a slick […]
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 […]
The shame of Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s intellectual laziness
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel’s left is celebrating as a street named for philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been unveiled in Jerusalem. Haaretz is waxing poetic. They note “Leibowitz was a […]
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