Essays

What was Edith Tudor-Hart really like? What are my ties to her besides that we are relatives? She was 17 when she first left her parents’ house to take a course with Maria…
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It’s 8:47am on a brisk March morning earlier this year. I’m in the Houses of Parliament. I’m told it’s the first time anyone has been invited in to perform a one-person show there…
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This is happening in my backyard. That’s what I kept saying to myself and anyone else who would listen. I did not mean the families torn apart by the US Border Patrol, or the…
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The following is adapted from a series of interviews and articles commissioned by Goldberg.nu to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the October 1943 “Rescue” of the Danish Jews.…
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On the deck of the SS Filippo Grimani bringing Alice Shalvi to Israel in October 1949, a group of Jewish refugees from Greece and the Balkans were singing Hebrew songs and dancing…
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Clive Sinclair spent most of his life in search of his “inner cowboy”. He grew up in North London, in the 1950s as a self-styled “Hendonite”. The dullness of suburban life was…
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In her memoir, Manhattan, When I was Young, Mary Cantwell recalls how, as an Irish-American woman with a Jewish boyfriend (soon to become her husband) during the summer Julius and…
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When Isaiah Berlin left Oxford in July 1940 he was single – “inépousable” according to his future mother-in-law – a relatively unknown philosophy don, prone to dark moods. While…
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For myself, I’ve always hated the term “self-hating Jew.” A device to shut down dissent, dished out when the dissident has crossed some line marked out by other Jews, it’s also a…
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Part I What makes the essay below stand out, for me, is its dishonesty. I hadn’t ever written anything dishonest—not anything I knew was dishonest. I had written plenty of…
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