To Cancel or Not to Cancel?

[A TV reporter]  wanted to know how I came to terms with a Jew-hater like Richard Wagner.  I replied spontaneously: ‘There were, and there are, many fine people on earth, but none of them has…

A Jewish Vocation

This week I finished Marcel Reich-Ranicki‘s autobiography,  The Author of Himself.  He was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and the foremost literary critic in post-war Germany.  As I read him, I thought of my…