Opinion | Does the U.S. State Department Now Wink at Holocaust Distortion?
Ambassador Rose recently absolved Poland and its people of any responsibility for the genocide of European Jewry during World War II.
Book Review | Testament to an Alchemy of Hope and Despair
Labeling it a glorified scrapbook wouldn’t fit the bill, though its fusion of words and images, its blurring of the self and the collective, brings one to mind.
Travel and Teshuvah: Our Tour Through Poland’s Contradictions
The future of Jewish life in Poland is neither established nor secure, but nor is it foreclosed. Poland is an opportunity.
When the Black Press Stood by the Jews Against the Nazis
Hitler’s hatred of anyone “non-Aryan” was not lost on Black Americans and the Black press.
Opinion | Invoking the Holocaust? Proceed with Caution
There is a reason historians insist on the singular nature of the Shoah.
From 1975 | Remembering
In those days and nights of destiny, the solitude of the Jewish people was matched only by God's... We let them suffer alone, fight alone. And yet, and yet. They did not die alone—not quite— for something of all of us died with them.
Book Review | 1945 and Other Stories
Jewish themes are central to the fictional works of Gábor T. Szántó, whose latest book is "1945 and Other Stories."
The Long Shadow of Austria’s Nazi Past
Last spring, my wife Anne-Marie and I had traveled to Linz, Austria’s third largest city, to attend the May 4 ceremony marking the liberation, by...
Hitler’s Enablers Included Conservative German Jews
History is replete with examples of people naïvely voting against their interests or loving a leader who doesn’t love them back.
Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.
Film Review | The Brutalist
The Brutalist grapples with the dysfunctional marriage of art, class and commerce in an enormous swing of a movie.
Film Review | A Real Pain
What if wounds don’t heal as much as they transform and re-shape as they pass down through the generations?