JST Executive Editor Robert Silverman on the BBC World Service Newsday, October 19, 2023.
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Assessment of the Biden Visit to Israel
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October 2023
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When the USSR collapsed, many did not expect the eight new states in former Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus to survive, let alone to thrive. Inter-ethnic tensions, radical religious movements fanned by foreigners, the lack of many laws and institutions that modern life requires, and the hangover of habits formed under nearly two centuries […]
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In 1949, Thomas Mann visited Germany, which was sundered in two between the western allies and the Soviet Union. The occasion was the bicentenary of the German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Mann, who had left Nazi Germany in 1933 and later emigrated to America, traveled to first to Frankfurt, where Goethe was […]
