Jacob Neusner shows how an identity founded on oppression and persecution limits the potential of the Diaspora

Seventy-seven years ago today, a landmark court case on Nazi war crimes began in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. A Jewish poet in uniform tried to report on it in verse. His struggles challenged the Stalinist doctrine of universalizing the Soviet dead and obfuscating Jewish victimhood.

What’s the right way to remember both victims and perpetrators of great crimes?

The untold story of the great epic poem of the Holocaust—and the generous, tragic hero who wrote it

A late-1970s surge in interest in the Holocaust coincided with a new ‘survivor’ mentality found in unexpected places, including Detroit and the Bee Gees

A little-known Yiddish manuscript upends our idea of the secular saint of human suffering

The very private non-Holocaust-related life of Anne Frank: teenage manga girl, tampon-marketer, European traveler, and emblem of the twin evils of war and intolerance—and the Japanese ‘culture of apology’

A war reporter visits Slovakia to meet the peasant-turned-doctor who risked his life to hide Jews

The singular horror of the Holocaust is being lost in exchange for enshrining rare moments of inspiration and universal narratives of suffering