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David Aberbach
David Aberbach teaches at McGill University. Among his books is The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939
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TS Eliot’s masterpiece reflected darkness that led to the Shoah
Published a hundred years ago this month, ‘The Wasteland’ expressed an uncanny movement of literary bleakness
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Salman Rushdie and the Jewish tradition of literary dissidents
Biblical prophets such as Jeremiah were persecuted and murdered for denouncing injustice and corrupt institutions
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Kidnapping Ukraine’s children echoes darkest days of the tsars
Putin’s latest evil tactic is all too reminiscent of Jews snatched from their families in Russia’s forced conscription in the 19th century
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Russia’s imperialist crimes are all foretold in the Hebrew Bible
The brutal approach of Putin’s army in Ukraine contains echoes of ancient empires, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians
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The one place where Jews are not settlers is Israel
Until the French Revolution, and for much afterwards, the world was galut (exile) to Jews - except for the land of Israel.
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Zelensky is the latest in a long line of proud Jewish patriots
His articulation of the Ukrainian struggle for recognition is based on the Eastern European Jewish experience
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How Joyce’s Ulysses bloomed out of Austro-Hungary’s Jews
Modernist masterpiece published 100 years ago is a rare exception to the prevailing literary antisemitism of the era
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The Bible offered to the world a blueprint for blaming yourself
The Hebrew prophets railed against sinning Jews for the misfortunes suffered by the community, and many followed suit
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History offers many differing versions of Jewish identity
Our relationship to both national and cultural identities has changed according to time and place
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Stefan Zweig never recovered from being humiliated as a Jew
The author only wrote one book based on a specific Jewish story, but the themes were present througout his oeuvre
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It took two millennia for Jews to learn they had to fight back
For most of Jewish history, Jews were pacifists and vulnerable to any attack.
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Left’s Jew-hate sown in French Revolution
Nineteenth-century liberalism made possible the modernisation of Jewish life, but also led to the rise of antisemitism, writes David Aberbach
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For Jews, paths to and away from secularism led to the same place
German Jews embraced non-religious education before those to the east, but this divergence mattered little in the Holocaust, writes David Aberbach
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How centuries of Jew-hate shaped us
Jews have suffered legal oppression for hundreds of years
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The tragic apparitions of The Dybbuk will continue to haunt us
The meaning of the most performed Yiddish play, which turned 100 last week, has been a matter of controversy
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Time for academia to come clean about its role in driving Jew-hate
There is a dark history of antisemitism in European universities going back to the Middle Ages
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