“... of the wave of Eastern European Jews who fled the pogroms in the early 20th century. America, as Philip Roth wrote of his ancestors, was their Zion, not Palestine. They revered FDR and despised Joe McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, Trump’s future mentor. They were grateful for America, but their gratitude was tinged with anxiety. My paternal ...”

“... a lecture delivered on Irish radio in 1995 and published in The Great Irish Famine: The Thomas Davis Lecture Series, James Donnelly remarked thatthroughout the rest of the Famine years, the Gregory clause or ‘Gregoryism’ became a byword for the worst miseries of the disaster – eviction, exile, disease and death. When in 1874 Canon John ...”