Philip Roth’s Czech KGB file
How Jews in Prague and Sofia overthrew their troubled communal leadership with the crumbling of the Soviet bloc
On the 30-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution ending Communism in Czechoslovakia, notes on how to transform a one-party state into a democracy in a matter of weeks
How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall
Slovakian state TV’s nomination of Hitler ally and WWII era dictator, Jozef Tiso, as ‘Greatest Slovak’ is worrying evidence of the country’s far-right drift
Fifty years ago tonight, the brutal crackdown on Prague Spring marked a turning point after which Western communists and fellow travelers could no longer ignore the Soviet Union’s ruthlessness.
Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy
Before his death, a visit to his studio in Woodstock, New York, where the Czech emigrant and underappreciated artist of the Holocaust found peace
A ‘60 Minutes’ segment, an archivist, and the enduring legacy of assumptions that there was no way to skirt the law
The late folk icon’s performance was the first ever to feature the instrument
Jews flocked to retreats like Marienbad, but what couldn’t be healed was Europe’s anti-Semitism
The Czech Surrealist Jindřich Heisler’s mystical art, on view in Chicago, reflected the Holocaust he avoided
Paul Berman on the late president and the Velvet Revolution
Eisen, son of Czech Jew, is appointed
A murky homeland is hard to stand by
