Entries by Spencer J. Quinn

Edwin Black’s “The Transfer Agreement”

The Transfer Agreement Edwin Black Dialog Press, 2009 edition. When you write a polemic, one meant to justify victory in a war, it would be best to deliver checkmate—that is, irrefutable proof that the correct side had won and that lives had not been sacrificed in vain. Edwin Black’s 1984 volume The Transfer Agreement, which […]

Review: Stalin’s War Against the Jews: The Doctor’s Plot and the Soviet Solution

Stalin’s War Against the Jews: The Doctor’s Plot and the Soviet Solution Louis Rapoport Free Press, 1990 A person’s lack of self-awareness can produce a sense of eye-rolling irony. Not a pleasant feeling—sort of like spinning one’s wheels. But such an encounter doesn’t have to be a total loss. A self-unaware person can still teach […]

On Russophobia and “Anti-Semitism”

I first learned of the term “Russophobia” many years ago in Robert Wistrich’s 1991 book Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred. My initial impression was essentially that Russians on the “radical right” were attempting to turn the tables on Jews by accusing them of what is effectively the inverse of anti-Semitism (i.e., Russophobia). Of course, this was […]