Joseph Eliyia, the Jewish Messiah of Greek Poetry
How two fundamental pillars of Western thought—classical Greek rationalism and monotheistic Jewish faith—collided in a remote area of the archipelago to produce a short-lived but influential communist
The Charlie Chaplin of Jewish Death
Géza Röhrig talks about his life-affirming fascination with death, his new film ‘To Dust,’ and why he wore a kippah to press events surrounding his breakout performance in the Oscar-winning ‘Son of Saul’
Jewish Horror
Judaism offers the same baroque supernatural possibilities that Christianity does. So why is it rarely a universal source for genre filmmakers? And what does it say about human evil?
The Last Jew of St. Poelten
Hans Morgenstern’s family fled the Nazis before returning to Austria after the war. Now, as the only Jew left in his small town outside Vienna, he laughs darkly watching the rise of Europe’s new far-right.
An Introduction to ‘Katerina’
In a note to his Ukrainian readers dictated before his death last year, Aharon Appelfeld explains the sources of his haunting novel of prewar Poland
Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory
One year after the death of the great writer, his humanity still shines
A Polish-Israeli Christmas Tradition Among the Children of Survivors
Every year at Christmas, Howard Kaplan sends thanks and a modest gift to the granddaughter of the woman who hid his mother from the Nazis
A Is for Abish
An Austrian-born American abstract artist arrives at 87 annī and amazes anew
Randolph Braham, Pioneering Scholar of the Holocaust in Hungary, Dies at 95
Orphaned by Auschwitz, he devoted his life to documenting the Nazis’ crimes
The Future of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
Is American anti-Semitism really distinctive from that of other diaspora countries? Just how worried should we be?
Giorgio Bassani’s Memorial Tapestry
A first English translation of the great Italian Jewish author’s single-volume compendium of tales of Ferrara reminds us of the power of his ghosts
Stop Erasing the Jewish Victims of Anti-Semitic Violence
Why do so many Americans seem uncomfortable with the particular nature of the attack—its apparent motive, its specific victims—in Pittsburgh?
Lev Ginzburg, Soviet Translator
The story of a Jewish Germanophile who became a Soviet investigator of Nazi crimes
The Failure of Holocaust Education in Britain
Misplaced historical values, survivors dying off, the Labour Party’s new rhetoric, and pressures on secondary curricula are all contributing to a generation of U.K. children with little or incorrect knowledge of the horrors of World War II
Life After Dachau
The unlikely friendship of a concentration camp survivor, the grandson of a Nazi commandant, and a Pakistani-German attorney
Sonia Orbuch, Who Fought the Nazis as a Teenager, Has Died at 93
In the event of capture, Sonia carried two hand grenades: ‘One for the enemy, and one for myself’
Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction
A Song of the Vilna Ghetto
Sept. 23 will mark 75 years since the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. This is the story of how one of the era’s most famous Jewish songs was written in the ghetto by an 11-year-old boy
The Impostor
Javier Cercas’ new book is an insightful literary investigation into the lies of a Spanish narcissist who passed himself off as a victim of the Holocaust
Love in a Place of Death: ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
An interview with Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Operation Unorthodox
Ep. 148: ‘Operation Finale’ actor Nick Kroll and director Chris Weitz on bringing the Eichmann capture to the big screen
We Seek Our Brothers
On the anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto uprising, Haika Grossman remembers the fire of revolt that sealed the fate of the remnants of Polish Jewry
Those Who Left and Those Who Rebelled
On the 75th anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto uprising, a Jewish fighter remembers how the fires were lit
Poles and the Holocaust: A Reckoning With History
The tragic reality is that most Poles were neither heroes nor demons but simply watched in silence while Jews were being taken away under their eyes.
My Journey to the Past
Sons and daughters of survivors, looking for a sense of closure in Poland
Remembering My Father in Auschwitz
Nothing about the Shoah was logical or made sense. Our task, our mission, today and always, is not to try to understand, but to remember.
The Generation That Shaped Our Understanding of the 20th Century Is Gone
The scholars, historians, and political advisers who shaped the West’s understanding of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Islamist Middle East, make way now for—what?
