Is the philosopher’s complexity enough to excuse his overt anti-Semitism? A dive into the so-called ‘black notebooks’ from the 1930s is revealing.

Seventy-seven years to the day after the Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist died, the great chronicler of prewar Europe still has much to tell us

Nazis sought to eliminate the Jews from their future racial empire. Poles wanted to create a state for them in Palestine. Historian Timothy Snyder makes the case that in the 1930s the two aims may have converged. But was Poland an ally of the Jews or a pioneer in the art of anti-Semitic politics?

A Harvard researcher was convinced he’d found evidence of 1930s movie mogul fascism. But did he get it wrong?

Uncovered: new evidence of Jewish movie moguls’ extensive collaboration with Nazis in the 1930s

The rock star’s new tribute to his teacher, the writer Delmore Schwartz, illuminates their common genius

A popular Yiddish novelist strove for immortality by taking on Jesus, but it cost him his core audience and made him a marked man

How Parisian decorator Jean-Michel Frank redefined the look of luxury

In the 1930s, boxing was more infused with politics than ever before

Joann Sfar on his graphic tale of a clever cat in 1930s Algeria