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Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent, the executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, teaches at Bard College. He is the author of Inside the Stalin Archives and Stalin’s Last Crime.

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    When Writing History Becomes a Crime

    Historians Jan Grabowski and Jonathan Brent review the Polish government’s justification for the laws under which it convicted Dr. Grabowski and Dr. Barbara Engelking of libel for their scholarship

    byJonathan BrentandJan Grabowski
  • Polish Americans hold a demonstration in Manhattan against a bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that supports victims of the Holocaust and their families in the process of restitution and recovery of property, on March 31, 2019. Many Polish nationalists see the bill as a threat.
    Polish Americans hold a demonstration in Manhattan against a bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that supports victims of the Holocaust and their families in the process of restitution and recovery of property, on March 31, 2019. Many Polish nationalists see the bill as a threat.
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    The War Between Polish Nationalism and Holocaust History

    Jonathan Brent speaks with Polish scholar Elżbieta Janicka about the campaign to absolve occupied Poland for its role in the Holocaust and blame Jews for their own slaughter

    byJonathan Brent
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    How Our Pious Literary Guardians Erase Ugly Truths and Leave Us Confused

    Lionel Trilling saw Isaac Babel as he imagined or wanted Eastern European Jews to be, not as he really was

    byJonathan Brent
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