Robert Manne

Dec 10, 2024 | thejewishindependent.com.au | Robert Manne

The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission. Enter site In 1967 the Holocaust was as close in time as 9/11 is to us today. In June, a war broke out between Israel and the surrounding Arab states. At that time Israel’s military capacity was unknown.

Dec 3, 2024 | johnmenadue.com | Robert Manne

When I began editing Quadrant with Peter Coleman in 1989, my co-editorship was soon overwhelmed by the most unpleasant controversy of my life, at least thus far. Peter Coleman suggested that we should publish two of my Melbourne Herald columns in each issue. For April, one of the columns I chose concerned the most recent development in the Hawke government’s “war crimes” legislation.

Dec 1, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Robert Manne

In early August 2011, my wife Anne and I were participants at the Byron Bay Writers Festival. News Corp was a sponsor, having supplied a festival tent, along with which came the editor of The Weekend Australian, Nick Cater. One of the events was a discussion about The Australian between Cater and me. I believed it would be dishonest (and dangerous) if in our conversation I did not make clear the conclusions of my Quarterly Essay on The Australian, which was to be published the following month.

Nov 28, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Robert Manne |Vice-Chancellor's Fellow |La Trobe

By Robert Manne, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University On May 15, 1938, Chaim Manne, his wife Leonora and their young son tried to escape Nazi Austria by gassing themselves. Leonora succeeded. Chaim’s ordeal was just beginning. Read complete article© The Conversation -

Nov 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Robert Manne

My father’s father, Joachim Manne, or Chaim, as he was called, was a Galician Jew born in 1872 and raised in Cracow, in the Polish lands of the Habsburg Empire. His family owned a substantial furniture manufacturing business, The Cracow Furniture Company (KrakowskaFabryka Mebli), whose records go back to 1860. For some reason, unknown to me, Chaim Manne migrated to the United States in 1900. Not long after, he married Leonora Hötchner, his first cousin, which was not uncommon then.