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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

JP O’ Malley

Ilan Evyatar (left) and Yonah Jeremy Bob (right) are the authors of 'Target Tehran.' (Courtesy)
December 13, 2023, 1:09 am
Israel’s (not-so) secret plan to prevent a nuclear Iran and create a new Middle East
For their new book ‘Target Tehran,’ Ilan Evyatar and Yonah Jeremy Bob interview spymasters, prime ministers and US officials on the shadowy means used to stop an existential threat
By JP O’ Malley
Hitler and Francisco Franco give the Nazi salute as they walk by German soldiers at the train station at Hendaye, France, October 23, 1940. (Public domain)
September 5, 2023, 5:22 am
How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it
In his new book ‘Architects of Terror,’ Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain’s ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy for Jewish refugees
By JP O’ Malley
Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel
In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy
By JP O’ Malley
FILE - In this June 29, 1956 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, left, and playwright Arthur Miller embrace on the lawn of Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., several hours before they were married in White Plains, New York. (AP Photo, File)
April 22, 2023, 2:40 am
The rags-to-riches story of Arthur Miller, Pulitzer-winning son of Jewish immigrants
A new biography by John Lahr in Yale’s Jewish Lives Series tracks the successes (and many failures) of a beloved American writer whose tragic characters were inspired by his life
By JP O’ Malley
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
April 21, 2023, 4:10 pm
Kafka uncensored: A new version of the writer’s diaries adds back the sordid details
When the ‘Metamorphosis’ author died his friend Max Brod published his journals – cutting the parts he thought too personal. Now they’re complete thanks to translator Ross Benjamin
By JP O’ Malley
A cleric walks past Zolfaghar, top, and Dezful missiles displayed by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 5, 2023, 6:04 am
Is Iran really the existential threat Israel claims it is? This author thinks not
In his new book ‘Fear and Insecurity,’ Jonathan Leslie says Israeli politicians are blowing Iranian nuclear aspirations out of proportion – and they’re doing it for the votes
By JP O’ Malley
'How the Soviet Jew Was Made' by Sasha Senderovich. (Courtesy)
February 11, 2023, 8:56 am
‘How the Soviet Jew Was Made’: A tale of wandering, oppression, language and lore
In his award-winning book, Prof. Sasha Senderovich mixes a rich, centuries-old body of Yiddish folklore with early 20th-century events to define a notoriously nebulous Jewish group
By JP O’ Malley
Albert Einstein, left, and Henry Morgenthau Sr., former US ambassador to Turkey, in New York on May 13, 1935, during a dinner held to raise funds for the aid of the children of German-Jewish refugees. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)
January 21, 2023, 6:53 am
How the ‘Jewish Kennedys’ helped save 200,000 Jews in WWII and delayed Iranian nukes
A new book tells how over 150 years the Morgenthaus, a German-Jewish immigrant family, publicized the Armenian genocide, ran the US Treasury and prosecuted mobsters and terrorists
By JP O’ Malley
Ghislaine Maxwell attends a press conference on the Issue of Oceans in Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, June 25, 2013. (United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP, File)
January 6, 2023, 12:57 am
Did father Robert Maxwell’s early abuse taint Ghislaine long before she met Epstein?
In his new book ‘Hunting Ghislaine,’ UK journalist John Sweeney claims a horrific childhood made the magnate’s daughter into a sociopath and set the stage for her sex crimes
By JP O’ Malley
Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)
September 26, 2022, 11:01 am
How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust
In his new book ‘Saving Freud,’ award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding the father of modern psychology’s harrowing escape to safety in London
By JP O’ Malley
Israeli director Ari Folman speaks during a master class at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2022. (Sarajevo Film Festival/ Obala Art Centar)
August 27, 2022, 2:39 pm
In Sarajevo, Ari Folman talks genocide, animating Anne Frank and pleasing his mother
Speaking with ToI at the Sarajevo Film Festival where he screened ‘Where is Anne Frank,’ the Israeli director dishes on an array of complex topics – just like his movies do
By JP O’ Malley
Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addresses a crowd gathered to commemorate the establishment of the freedom of the press in America at Mount Vernon, New York, October 28, 1933. Prominent editors, publishers and journalists were present. (AP Photo)
August 12, 2022, 10:32 pm
Bad news for the Jews: How six US and UK media moguls aided the nascent Nazi regime
In ‘The Newspaper Axis,’ historian Kathryn S. Olmsted details how prior to WWII, press barons including William Randolph Hearst worked to sway the public toward Hitler’s line
By JP O’ Malley
Illustrative photo of a man drinking alcohol (iStock photos/ boggy22)
June 13, 2022, 3:19 am
In hitting bottom, an alcoholic psychiatrist finds the key to fighting addiction
In ‘The Urge: Our History of Addiction,’ author Carl Fisher taps into both his own experience and humanity’s to argue that substance abuse isn’t a one-off solvable issue
By JP O’ Malley
Joseph Weisberg, creator of 'The Americans' and author of 'Russia Upside Down.' (Courtesy/ FX)
January 29, 2022, 7:36 am
Ex-CIA agent and creator of ‘The Americans’ says US and Russia aren’t that different
As Russian troops amass on the Ukrainian border, Joseph Weisberg, author of ‘Russia Upside Down,’ argues that a little empathy – and eased sanctions – could go a long way
By JP O’ Malley
Charles E. Coughlin attacking the Roosevelt administration in a speech before the Townsend National Convention, July 17, 1936. (AP Photo)
January 28, 2022, 5:27 am
FBI files shine light on homegrown Nazi plot to overthrow US government during WWII
In ‘Nazis of Copley Square,’ historian Charles R. Gallagher argues that the widely overlooked Christian Front posed a true threat – and he’s got newly released intel to prove it
By JP O’ Malley
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