
Who Won the Cold War?
How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall

The Wandering Star of Yiddish Lit
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.

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

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

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

Jewish Pioneers Return to 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?

The Amazing Return of the Yabloner Rebbe
An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate

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

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.

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

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

Losing It
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

How Ewa Kurek, the Favorite Historian of the Polish Far Right, Promotes Her Distorted Account of the Holocaust
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

The 1968 Forced Exodus of Polish Jewry on Film
May Day: How Polish filmakers documented and interpreted the ‘March Emigration,’ an ‘anti-Zionist’ purge in communist Warsaw 50 years ago

Neo-Poland: An Original Poem
Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law

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

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Living Challenge of Anti-Fascism
Lessons from World War II Poland for us today

In Britain and Poland, Anti-Semitism’s Ugly History Repeats Itself
Jew-hatred is a form of derangement that, if unchecked, will destroy the societies that practice it

Polish Consulate Cancels Award for Polish-Jewish Dialogue
After nearly honoring a historian some in the Jewish community consider a Holocaust revisionist

A Stranger in Poland
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

Using Nazism’s Legacy to Train Young Professionals in Ethics
The Fellowships at Auschwitz Ethical Leadership Awards program asks pressing moral questions to students of law, business, medicine, journalism, and religion

Distorting the Holocaust in Hungary
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

Correcting the Record on Wroclaw’s Jewish Cemetery
A letter from Poland’s Chief Rabbi

A Letter from the Polish Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki on Jews, Poles, and the complexities of history

Digging Up the Past in a Jewish Cemetery
In Wroclaw, Poland, the fate of an old graveyard collides with the promise of a new Best Western hotel

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