Paul Socken
Prof. Paul Socken has a Ph.D from the University of Toronto and is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He was on the faculty of the university for 37 years in the Department of French Studies. He established the Chair of Jewish Studies at Waterloo and has written for Jewish publications since his retirement.
Poor, frustrated antisemites: Truth, history must take second place to outrage - review
Will our quarrelling leaders ever learn to unify and cooperate? - opinion
Proto-Semitism: The answer to antisemitism - opinion
This French village conspired to save the Jews during the Holocaust
There were people in every country who risked their lives and the lives of their families to act righteously and protect the Jews.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool': The Jewish Don Quixote
The story of Gimpel, published after WWII, constitutes the repudiation of Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein’s understandable response to the Holocaust.
The trouble with a secular world without religious tradition
A Gallup poll reveals that fewer than half of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship. America, the most religious of Western countries, is losing its religion.
Indifference, hatred are symptoms of madness gripping the world - opinion
There is a way to argue that is civil and humble. Sadly, it is too often abandoned or ignored because each side thinks that it is the arbiter of truth and the other is the enemy
Is there no solution to racism, antisemitism, hate? - opinion
If select PhDs from premier universities of Europe’s center of culture could lead 25 brigades to murder men, women and children, what does that say about intellectuals and European high culture?
