Click Here to Read: Parent Trapped, OpEd Piece by Katherine Ellison in the New York Times on February 11, 2011.
Click Here to Read: When Parents Are Pushed to the Limit, Letters to the Editor by Claudia Gold, Paul C. Holinger, Pamela Potischman, Regina Pally and Beth Rosen in the New York Times on February 18, 2011.
Click Here To Read: ’Tis No Pity She’s a C.E.O., review of Mrs. Warren’s Profession By Ben Brantley in The New York Times on October 3, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Brantley vs. Shaw: Ann Appelbaum’s letter to the New York Times about Ben Brantley’s review of Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Also included are Ms. Appelbaum’s letters to Ms. Jones, Mr. Hughes, and Ms. Hawkins.
Sally Hawkins, left, portrays Vivie, the daughter of Kitty Warren (Cherry Jones), in Doug Hughes’s revival of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”
Unpublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review by Zvi Lothane:
Eric Ormsby praises Jonathan Philips, the author of “Holy Warriors A Modern History of the Crusades,” for the “cool, almost documentary power [of] his narrative,” which inspires Ormsby to romanticize the Crusaders: “In fact, their faith was as pure as their savagery.” But were they so pure? Ormsby makes no reference to Phillips’ perfunctory descriptions of “pogroms” and massacres during the first Crusade, while Phillips studiously avoids mentioning “anti-Semitism or the role played by Church-sponsored hatred of the Jews in fueling the fervor of the Crusades. As noted by Paul Johnson in “A History of the Jews,” “the anti-Semitic ideology and folklore which helped to detonate the first crusader riots proved to be simply the plinth on which a vast superstructure of hostile rumour was built” (p. 208). Similarly, Count Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his 1901 “Anti-Semitism throughout the Ages” (published in English in 1953 but cited by Sigmund Freud in his 1938 “Comment on anti-Semitism,” after he fled from Nazi Austria to London), noted the following: “with the Crusades began a time of the most terrible persecution of the Jews. Hosts of Crusaders, many of the the scum of French, English, Lothringian and Flemish countries, started, as Graetz says, their work of murdering and plundering with the Jews for want of Mohammedans. Continue reading Unpublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review by Zvi Lothane
