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Claudia Moscovici

Aug 21, 2021, 1:31 AM

Counteracting UN biases against Israel: The Abraham Global Peace Initiative

Avi Benlolo, the former head of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies Canada and one of the leading experts on the Holocaust, recently launched a new organization for human rights called The Abraham Global Peace Initiative...

Jun 29, 2021, 10:55 PM

Diplomacy and the US-Israel Alliance

We are already familiar with the policy of isolationism during the 1940’s, “America First”, whose main spokesman was the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, a rightwing nationalist with Fascist tendencies. But there is less talk about the leftwing version of...

Jun 24, 2021, 12:11 AM

The Promise of the Abraham Accords

Whether you are right-wing or left-wing politically, it’s difficult to see the Abraham Accords as anything but a big step forward for diplomacy and peace in the Middle East. The Abraham Accords, a joint statement of cooperation between Israel...

Mar 19, 2021, 11:06 PM

Fighting BDS on college campuses: Adela Cojab and the Maccabee Task Force

In her article in the New York Post (December 14, 2019) about her fight against anti-Semitism on New York University’s campus, pro-Israel Jewish activist Adela Cojab Moadeb explains the difficulties she encountered due to a strong BDS movement that was gaining momentum on the NYU...

Mar 12, 2021, 7:39 PM

‘If you will it, it is no dream’ — the JNF-USA’s Zionist Village design competition

In a prophetic statement, Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, warned in his groundbreaking book, The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), that the Jews would continue to be persecuted and treated as second class citizens unless they reestablished their...

Feb 11, 2021, 1:56 AM

Getting to know Israel: An invitation to Birthright Israel with Shorashim

Born in 1948, after two hundred years of struggles against anti-Semitism and in the wake of the horrors of the Holocaust, the state of Israelis home to Jewish people all over the world and America’s strongest ally in the...

Dec 25, 2020, 12:46 AM

From Stalinist oppression to a Jewish Renaissance in the (former) Soviet Union

Hillel International in the Former Soviet Union

Between the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, generations of Soviet Jews had lost touch with their Jewish heritage. The Jews populating Russia and the Pale of Settlement—which covered parts of...

About Me

Claudia Moscovici earned an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and taught philosophy and literature at Boston University and the University of Michigan. She is the author of several scholarly books on Romantic literature (Romanticism and Postromanticism, Lexington Books, 2007) and of the critically acclaimed novels Velvet Totalitarianism (2009) and The Seducer (2011). Most recently, she published a survey of Holocaust memoirs, histories, novels and films called Holocaust Memories (2019).