Joe Alterman
The war on jazz in Nazi Germany was never just about music. It was about control—of thought, of identity, of expression. It was a warning then, and it is a warning now.
Moment
Threats of murder to Jews at a kibbutz in Israel. Historical revision of the Holocaust on Wikipedia in Poland. Twitter threats towards Jewish representatives in Michigan. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
A look back at the Bulgarian Jewish community in the wake of Sofia’s annual neo-Nazi march getting cancelled in 2023.
Liam Hoare
In January, Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) hosted its annual Academics Ball, where women in gowns and men in tuxedos and three-piece suits dance and socialize in Vienna’s splendorous imperial palace. Attendees also proudly dress in the colors and regalia of their Burschenschaften—student fraternities founded during the 19th century, some of which espouse pan-Germanism.
Annie Roiphe
THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Martin Amis // Alfred A. Knopf // 2014 // pp. 306
At the very beginning of his probing, disturbing account of the Nazis’ destruction of Dutch Jewry, Bernard Wasserstein asks what is no doubt the most terrible question that can be posed about Jewish behavior during the Holocaust: “Confronting the absolute evil of Nazism, was there any middle road between outright resistance and abject submission?”
Mandy Katz
