Rick Rich­man is a res­i­dent schol­ar at Amer­i­can Jew­ish Uni­ver­si­ty in Los Ange­les and a grad­u­ate of Har­vard Col­lege and New York Uni­ver­si­ty Law School. He has writ­ten for Com­men­tary, Mosa­ic, The New York Sun, The Jew­ish Jour­nal, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions, and is the author of Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler (2018).