Notes from the Other Side of Night

Juliana Geran Pilon is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander HamiltonInstitute for the Study of Western Civilization, where she has directed AHI’sWashington Program on National Security since 2016. Her books include: AnIdea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left; The UtopianConceit and the War on Freedom; The Art of Peace: Engaging aComplex World; Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve; the anthology CulturalIntelligence for Winning the Peace; Why America is Such a HardSell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice; the anthology Every Vote Counts:The Role of Elections in Building Democracy, which she co-edited withRichard Soudriette; and The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism inEastern Europe—Spotlight on Romania. The author of over two hundred fiftyarticles and reviews on international affairs, human rights, literature, andphilosophy, she has made frequent appearances on radio and television. Herwritings have recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Law &Liberty, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), Academic Questions,the AmericanMind, and the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, amongother places. Mircea Eliade (1907–86), a native of Romania, was a celebrated religious historian, philosopher, and novelist. A longtime professor at the University of Chicago, Eliade’s best-known books include A History of Religious Ideas and The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History.Wilfred M. McClay is Professor of History at Hillsdale College,where he holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and WesternCivilization. He is the author several award-winning books, including TheMasterless: Self and Society in Modern America, Jewish Roots of AmericanLiberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story, and thebestselling Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story.

“A powerful story ofa Jewish family discriminated against by two totalitarian regimes told withgreat talent.”—Radu Ioanid, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies