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Spring
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2025
Dispatch from Damascus
By Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of...
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March 2025
Opinion | An Elementary Truth: Gaza is Palestinian
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’...
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March 2025
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 5: A conversation with Koby Huberman
By Koby Huberman
Veteran peace practitioner Koby Huberman shares with Fathom his experiences on both the bilateral level – between Israel...
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March 2025
Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia
By Azriel Bermant
Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in...
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March 2025
Winter
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2024
From the Edge of the Abyss | Dispatch from Israel
By Calev Ben-Dor
The rubble at the site of the former Sderot police station – destroyed by an Israeli tank on...
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February 2025
Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed
By Najwa AlSaeed
Najwa AlSaeed talks to Fathom about Gulf states' desire for a post-Hamas Gaza freed from Iranian influence; navigating...
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February 2025
Resisting Despair: A.B. Yehoshua’s Literary Legacy
By Ranen Omer-Sherman
Ranen Omer-Sherman, JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville, surveys the life and work...
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February 2025
Jewish Indigeneity to the Land of Israel
By Ben Freeman
Ben Freeman writes about his recent book, The Jews: An Indigenous People. While Jews' primary concern is how...
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February 2025
Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | An Eternity of Days
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Ceasefire Announced (15 January 2025) I’ve been holding my breath since 7 October 2023. Tonight, in the back...
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February 2025
The Core Problems with Boycott and Divestment
By Cary Nelson et al
The authors (Cary Nelson, Susana Cavallo, David Greenberg, Rebecca Lesses, Jeffry Mallow, and Stan Nadel) on behalf of...
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February 2025
Book Review | Chasidim Just Laugh
By Shaul Judelman
It is with great awe and trepidation that I agreed to put on the page my reflections on...
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February 2025
Alan Johnson: In Appreciation
By Fathom Editors
Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting...
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January 2025
Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays')
By David Hirsh
This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator...
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January 2025
A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967
By Philip Earl Steele
War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and...
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January 2025
The London Initiative: Partnering to Re-Connect Democracy, Fairness and Peace for a Better Shared Future
By Sir Mick Davis & Mike Prashker
Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to...
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January 2025
We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking
By Meredith Rothbart
Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding,...
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January 2025
The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left
By Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern...
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January 2025
Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance
By Michael Feuer
Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent...
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January 2025
Book Review | Forest of Noise
By Joe Lockard
Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as...
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January 2025
‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland
By Oliver Sears
Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community...
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December 2024
Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria
By Itai Anghel
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program...
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December 2024
Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West
By Joanna Tokarska Bakir
Professor Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is Chair of Ethnic and National Relations at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of...
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December 2024
Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?
By Paul Gross
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald...
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December 2024
Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment
By Charles Asher Small
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy...
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December 2024
Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities
By Philip Mendes
Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department...
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December 2024
Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'
By Alexander Yakobson
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Alexander Yakobson, co-author of Israel and the Family of Nations: The...
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December 2024
Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
By Matthew Levitt
Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy....
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November 2024
A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...
By Marina Barats
Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London Background President Joe Biden...
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November 2024
Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
By Joshua A. Brook
Palestine is Everywhere ‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What...
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November 2024
Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles
By George Stevens
George Stevens is co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organisations from Israel, Palestine and across...
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November 2024
Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors
By Michael Yudkin
Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University...
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November 2024
Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Just?
By Michael Walzer
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just...
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November 2024
Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel
By Balazs Berkovits
Somewhere near the centre of the intellectual revolution of our times, and to the manner in which it...
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November 2024
No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood
By Andres Spokoiny
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long...
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November 2024
The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff
By Lesley Klaff
Lesley Klaff is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late...
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November 2024
Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence
By Scott Abramson
Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center...
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November 2024
Autumn
/
2024
The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine
By Barry Finger
Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former...
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October 2024
2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah
By Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton argues those drawing parallels to Israel’s 2006 are radically mistaken. In 2024 Israel intelligence, planning and...
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October 2024
‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking
By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly...
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October 2024
The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews
By Adam J. Sacks
Opened in 2024, the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews is the largest branch of the...
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October 2024
Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
By Adam Gregerman
Adam Gregerman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He examines four parallels between...
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October 2024
7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP
By Yaron Matras
Yaron Matras is former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and Associate Fellow of the London...
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October 2024
Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations
By Matthias J. Becker
Matthias J. Becker leads the innovative research project Decoding Antisemitism and has for many years been advocating for...
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October 2024
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...
By Gidi Grinstein
Gidi Grinstein was intimately involved in the negotiations during the Oslo years and served as secretary of the...
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October 2024
Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal
By Joe Lockard
Joe Lockard is associate professor of English at Arizona State University-Tempe. Very few pay attention to faculty statements...
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October 2024
The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius
By Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished...
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October 2024
Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology
By Christopher Schilling
Christopher L. Schilling is the author of The Therapized Antisemite: The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of...
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October 2024
Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society
By Calev Ben-Dor
Calev Ben-Dor reviews three new books published to mark the anniversary of the brutal Hamas attack on Israel....
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October 2024
The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...
By Mitchell Cohen
In April 2024 Fathom published an interview with Mitchell Cohen entitled ‘From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of...
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October 2024
The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative
By Hedda Harari-Spencer
Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. On 17 May the University of Pennsylvania...
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October 2024
Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic...
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October 2024
How Oslo could solve Gaza
By Gidi Grinstein
Gidi Grinstein, who served as secretary of the Israeli delegation for the Camp David negotiations, argues that the...
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September 2024
Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332
By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor shares his anguished reflections from Jerusalem after six hostages were executed by...
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September 2024
Opinion | It is never a good idea for British foreign policy to be dictated by domestic political concerns, as...
By Alan Mendoza
Alan Mendoza argues that the new Labour government has set a tone on relations with Israel that can...
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September 2024
Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel
By Andrew Fox
Fathom republishes a speech Andrew Fox prepared for a gathering outside the UK Foreign Office following David Lammy’s...
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September 2024
Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process
By Tom Harris
Tom Harris was Labour MP for Glasgow South from 2001 to 2015. He argues that Labour is wasting...
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September 2024
The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes
By Kathleen Hayes
Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara...
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September 2024
Summer
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2024
7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination
By John Ware
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas...
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July 2024
‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report
By Gerald M. Steinberg
The systematic omission of Hamas’ massive underground terror infrastructure from the 2024 Human Rights Watch Gaza report, part...
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July 2024
Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea
By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World”...
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July 2024
Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem
By Seth Frantzman
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on Wednesday, July 17, setting off alarms in the coastal city of Nahariya...
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July 2024
Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer
By Stephen de Wijze
Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. He writes in praise...
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July 2024
Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself
By Dan Perry
Dan Perry was the Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. He also...
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July 2024
The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky
By Izabella Tabarovsky
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for...
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July 2024
The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David...
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July 2024
Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine
By Philip Earl Steele
On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book...
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July 2024
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld
By Yair Hirschfeld
In the third episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Yair Hirschfeld recalls...
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June 2024
‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October
By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. This chapter was first published in Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic...
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June 2024
Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace
By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki is a co-founder and editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books and a visiting fellow...
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June 2024
Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon
By BICOM
In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi about the situation on...
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June 2024
Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation
By Paul Gross
Centrism is ‘the antidote to the extremism and sustained attacks on liberal democracy that are sweeping much of...
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June 2024
‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism
By Philip Mendes
Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social...
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June 2024
What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt
By Matthew Levitt
Counter-terror expert Matthew Levitt speaks to Fathom about Hamas’s vision and strategy. What is Hamas's strategy for the...
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June 2024
What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat
By Azar Gat
Azar Gat, Ezer Weizman Chair for National Security at Tel Aviv University, speaks to Calev Ben-Dor about the...
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June 2024
Dispatch from the scene of a massacre
By Calev Ben-Dor
Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor reflects on his visit to Israel’s south, and the sites of the 7...
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June 2024
Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism
By Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard argues we can learn something of value about contemporary antisemitism from the use of two metaphors....
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June 2024
Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’
By Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker
Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker of the Decoding Antisemitism project show how commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day...
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June 2024
Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia
By Brian Horowitz
Brian Horowitz holds the Sizeler Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he teaches Jewish history,...
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June 2024
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