Weak Endnotes
Patricia Cohen,"Roosevelt and the Jews: A Debate Rekindled," NYT, 30 April, anticipates the publication of Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart and Severin Hochberg, eds., Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945. This is the second of three volumes of McDonald's papers.
Evan R. Goldstein,"Running out of Solutions," Foreign Policy, April, looks at the evolving position of Bennie Morris and the Israeli left.
Late this afternoon at my house, we will lift our cups of Mint Julep for the Annual Official Weep. It happens when the choir sings"My Old Kentucky Home" before the running of the Kentucky Derby. Many versions of Stephen Foster's song really are bad enough to make you weep, but I rather like Johnny Cash's revision of it. Foster's lyrics were sanitized by the state legislature two decades ago, but the revision obscured the origins of a song written in the antislavery spirit of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel. It was originally entitled"Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night."