Moment Memoir | Shame, Names and the Mengele Tractor Factory
I learned about the Mengele tractor factory in 1981 when I was trying to get from Denmark to Italy by rail. I simply could not...
A Wide Open Conversation with Ken Burns and Michael Krasny
Filmmaker Ken Burns joins award-winning journalist Michael Krasny, retired public radio host of KQED Forum, for a wide open conversation about Burn’s just released book Our America: A Photographic History and the new three-part series The U.S. and the Holocaust.
This program is part of a Moment series on antisemitism supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation.
From the Newsletter | Martha’s Vineyard Jewish History Presented at Island’s Museum
“They Planted the Seeds” exhibition tells the story of the first Jews who came to Martha’s Vineyard, 120 years ago.
Montana Jewish Project Succeeds in Buying Back Historic Helena Synagogue
Helena’s synagogue was sold to the state in 1935, but now Temple Emanu-El is back in Jewish hands.
My Dinner Party for Women’s Equality Day 2022
Moment Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein shares her fantasy guest list for a Women’s Equality Day dinner party.
From the Newsletter | Frozen Russian Tanks and Rockets’ Red Glare
Marking Ukraine’s 31 years of independence and six months of war waged by Russia, we look back on our coverage.
South Africa: Triumphs and Troubles Since the End of Apartheid with Eve Fairbanks, Steve Friedman and Glenn Frankel
What really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy? Eve Fairbanks, former Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Fellow and author of the new book, The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning and Steve Friedman, political scientist at the University of Johannesburg and author of Race, Class and Power: Harold Wolpe and the Radical Critique of Apartheid, speak about the tumultuous three decades since the end of Apartheid, the role Jews played in ending Apartheid and the nation’s triumphs and ongoing troubles. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel, author of Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa.
Amid Antisemitism, Jewish Montanans Seek to Buy Back Historic Synagogue
The Montana Jewish Project hopes to purchase Temple Emanu-El—constructed in 1890 during a colorful, obscure chapter of Jewish history—from the Diocese of Helena.
Simone Veil: The Holocaust Survivor Who Achieved Reproductive Rights in France
Simone Veil survived two Nazi concentration camps and became one of the most admired women in Europe.
Witness to a Massacre: The Kamianets-Podilskyi Experiment
The Germans killed 23,600 Jews at Kamianets-Podilskyi. Photos secretly taken by Gyula Spitz documented their final march.
Jewish Geography—Six Feet Under
Cemeteries are historical markers, links to the past. Jewish communities move on or move out, but the history of American Jewry is carved in granite.
Lilacs and the Pit: Family Holocaust Recollections
Four poignant vignettes explore the enduring impact of Nazi massacres in the Ponar Forest on a Vilnius family and community.