From 1941 to 1943, a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish woman kept a diary in Amsterdam. The result is an extraordinary document, both in terms of its literary quality and the faith it emanates from. An unwavering faith in man as he carries out his darkest misdeeds. Etty Hillesum left the Westerbork transit camp on 7 September 1943, from where she sent admirable letters to her friends, and died in Auschwitz on 30 November of the same year.
Born poor in the miserable Jewish quarter of old Cairo, the darling of ‘Haret el-Yahoud, the Jewish alleyway, the flamboyant young man, whose clubs and bars attract Cairo’s high society, arrives without family, without friends, […]
The Bible is full of fratricides. So much so that Gerard Haddad, in The Cain Complex, his previous book, described fraternal rivalry as “the original sin of human society”, in the same way as the […]
A midrach, whose Hebrew root DRCH implies research, is a biblical commentary charged with a fruitful search for multiple meanings. It is a sum of moral considerations, ethical precepts and elements of wisdom. The author […]
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