How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall

Slovakian state TV’s nomination of Hitler ally and WWII era dictator, Jozef Tiso, as ‘Greatest Slovak’ is worrying evidence of the country’s far-right drift

Fifty years ago tonight, the brutal crackdown on Prague Spring marked a turning point after which Western communists and fellow travelers could no longer ignore the Soviet Union’s ruthlessness.

Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy

Before his death, a visit to his studio in Woodstock, New York, where the Czech emigrant and underappreciated artist of the Holocaust found peace

A ‘60 Minutes’ segment, an archivist, and the enduring legacy of assumptions that there was no way to skirt the law

The late folk icon’s performance was the first ever to feature the instrument

Jews flocked to retreats like Marienbad, but what couldn’t be healed was Europe’s anti-Semitism

The Czech Surrealist Jindřich Heisler’s mystical art, on view in Chicago, reflected the Holocaust he avoided

Paul Berman on the late president and the Velvet Revolution

Eisen, son of Czech Jew, is appointed

A murky homeland is hard to stand by