Villa Aurora is a record of German-Jewish exile, a refuge built by intellectuals fleeing Nazi Europe, and now a stark reminder of how fragile cultural memory can be. ...
Last spring, my wife Anne-Marie and I had traveled to Linz, Austria’s third largest city, to attend the May 4
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Amid the Trump administration’s head-spinning foreign policy reorientation this week vis à vis Russia and Ukraine and its ongoing crusade
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History is replete with examples of people naïvely voting against their interests or loving a leader who doesn’t love them back. ...
No rabbi for President Carter. But he had someone whom no other president has ever included in an inauguration: a Jewish cantor. ...
“It has never been quite clear to me why Carter arouses such an antipathetic response among American Jews,” Leonard “Leibel” Fein wrote after interviewing Jimmy Carter in 1984. ...
A USC exhibit pairs Flavius Josephs, the first-century chronicler of a doomed Jewish revolt, with Lion Feuchtwanger, the 20th-century German-Jewish novelist who fled Nazi persecution. ...
“The Jewish refugees now had a possible path of escape, if only they could get across the water.” ...
As the 2024 Summer Olympics have drawn to a close, the spotlight has shifted onto the Paralympics, set to begin
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The horrific siege and sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple is vividly commemorated every year on Tisha B’Av. ...
"For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!” ...
For those who are used to hearing McCarthyism thrown around as a generalized term of abuse, it may be worth looking back at the details of that time. ...