David Aberbach teaches at McGill University. Among his books is The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939
Published a hundred years ago this month, ‘The Wasteland’ expressed an uncanny movement of literary bleakness
Biblical prophets such as Jeremiah were persecuted and murdered for denouncing injustice and corrupt institutions
Putin’s latest evil tactic is all too reminiscent of Jews snatched from their families in Russia’s forced conscription in the 19th century
The brutal approach of Putin’s army in Ukraine contains echoes of ancient empires, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians
Until the French Revolution, and for much afterwards, the world was galut (exile) to Jews - except for the land of Israel.
His articulation of the Ukrainian struggle for recognition is based on the Eastern European Jewish experience
Modernist masterpiece published 100 years ago is a rare exception to the prevailing literary antisemitism of the era
The Hebrew prophets railed against sinning Jews for the misfortunes suffered by the community, and many followed suit
Our relationship to both national and cultural identities has changed according to time and place
The author only wrote one book based on a specific Jewish story, but the themes were present througout his oeuvre
For most of Jewish history, Jews were pacifists and vulnerable to any attack.
Nineteenth-century liberalism made possible the modernisation of Jewish life, but also led to the rise of antisemitism, writes David Aberbach
German Jews embraced non-religious education before those to the east, but this divergence mattered little in the Holocaust, writes David Aberbach
Jews have suffered legal oppression for hundreds of years
The meaning of the most performed Yiddish play, which turned 100 last week, has been a matter of controversy
There is a dark history of antisemitism in European universities going back to the Middle Ages
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