How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall

Debora Vogel was a brilliant multilingual poet and aesthete who is best known as the muse of Bruno Schulz. But her work deserves a reading—in German, Polish, Hebrew, and especially Yiddish.

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

Israel’s alliance with illiberal regimes can be necessary and justified but not when they embolden anti-Semitic dog whistles

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

Who gets to trifle with despair?

A remarkable record of miracles performed by Ya’akov Arie Guterman on behalf of simple folk in 19th-century Poland

A new exhibit of works by the activist-artist Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art stars her video trilogy ‘And Europe Will Be Stunned.’ Was it a glimpse of a neo-Zionist utopian future, or a relic of a disappearing past?

An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate

Democracy in Poland: The land of resistance finds itself once again under threat of totalitarianism, this time from within

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.

Tablet Fiction: ‘I am the custodian of the killing fields’

The ‘Shoah’ filmmaker, who died last week at age 92, would not look away

Ep. 141: JCC Krakow director Jonathan Ornstein on rebuilding Jewish life in Poland; Modern Loss founders Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer on what not to send to someone in mourning

In public events across America, including one attended by a U.S. Congressman, the formerly respected scholar accused rich Jews of plotting with the Nazis to kill their poor brethren and argued that the ghettos were voluntary

May Day: How Polish filmakers documented and interpreted the ‘March Emigration,’ an ‘anti-Zionist’ purge in communist Warsaw 50 years ago

Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law

How newly opened archives, a wider European scope, transnational narratives, and integrated big data are changing our understanding of the Shoah

Lessons from World War II Poland for us today

Jew-hatred is a form of derangement that, if unchecked, will destroy the societies that practice it

After nearly honoring a historian some in the Jewish community consider a Holocaust revisionist

Marian Turski, the 91-year-old Polish Auschwitz survivor, on the new anti-Semitism, the moral force of lived experience, and the lingering power of humiliation

The Fellowships at Auschwitz Ethical Leadership Awards program asks pressing moral questions to students of law, business, medicine, journalism, and religion

Seventy-four years to the day after Nazi Germany’s occupation of Hungary, we are not done defending the truth of what happened in Budapest, of how Otto Komoly carried himself in the war, and whether Rudolf Kasztner’s ‘Blood for Goods’ rescue train was a noble or morally abhorrent act

A letter from Poland’s Chief Rabbi

Mateusz Morawiecki on Jews, Poles, and the complexities of history

In Wroclaw, Poland, the fate of an old graveyard collides with the promise of a new Best Western hotel

As the controversy surrounding Poland’s new law continues, it’s crucial to keep the facts and the complexities of the subject in mind

Another look at Tablet’s treasury of reporting on the increasingly troubled relations between the government in Warsaw and the Jews

Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb brought cruel death in the Lodz ghetto to life