The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center of history, because Jews can never take the right to l
Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas over Zionism, very much a warrior using words and ideas as his weapons. This book begins with a dissection of the first (1987) Intifada an
This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairingintellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, butalso Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D. H. Lawrence and Bertr
The Holocaust and the War of Ideas begins with an analysis of ancient and modern anti-Semitism as the primary cause of the destruction of European Jewry. Alexander proceeds to interpret representative