How the struggle between undemocratic liberalism and ‘illiberal democracy’ came to define Western politics
After discovering my Jewish heritage as a teenager behind the Iron Curtain, I tried to learn about my family history from my only surviving uncle. But all I was left with were photographs of strangers—and unanswered questions.
An unlikely book opened a window into my grandmothers’ lives in Hungary before they were murdered in the Holocaust
I reclaimed my Hungarian citizenship just in time to vote in Sunday’s historic election
Looking for gravestones and finding poetry in Hungary
Scenes from a postwar childhood in Budapest
The billionaire financier deemed Hungarian anti-Semitism a thing of the past in the 1990s. Would he amend that view today?
The terrible cost of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum’s life and actions during the Holocaust, and his later extremism
Opposing views on the state of Viktor Orbán’s country
L’Affaire Nyírő
Was dumping Imre Kertész from the school curriculum an act of state anti-Semitism? A letter of reply.
In an attempt to Make Hungary Great Again, the populist government digs up some musty anti-Semitic nationalists for its recommended reading lists instead
Tablet Fiction: Moritz and Max have a plan to get back what’s theirs
The 30th anniversary of the nation’s liberation is troubled not only by its past but also by its present
Remembering the Hungarian writer and dissident György Konrád, who died last month at age 86
How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall
Israel’s alliance with illiberal regimes can be necessary and justified but not when they embolden anti-Semitic dog whistles
Tablet Original Fiction: I don’t even know if I am a boy or a girl
