Twinned artistic prophecies of the destruction of the Jewish people in Europe, on Chaim Soutine’s 125th birthday

A pair of exhibits, one at Harvard Art Museums, the other at New York’s Neue Galerie, try to read the signs of a coming conflagration and its attendant guilt in works made under the rise and fall of National Socialism

Seventy-nine years after Kristallnacht, ‘A Deadly Legacy,’ a new history of German Jewish soldiers during World War I, traces the origins of the European scapegoating that would engulf the continent some years later

A Tablet continuing series of tributes to the people who hate us

The late Marcin Wrona’s dark new Dybbuk parable digs deep into a haunted past

Estella Solomons was both a proud Jew and a fierce fighter for Irish independence. She was not alone.

When a young Yiddish poet killed a Ukrainian leader who allowed pogroms, he helped forge a lasting link between Jews and Armenians

A new memoir by the grandson of a Russian bibliophile is also a great intellectual history of the 20th century

Long-gone writer is introduced to new readers with the help of graphic art

Two new important histories look at Hitler’s fascination with Islam and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey

A tour of the cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission reveals oases of calm—but few living visitors

A new show at the Jewish Museum in New York follows contrasting exhibits in Liverpool and Paris

The Holocaust destroyed Plock’s Jewish community. But the exodus started decades earlier, after World War I.

On Veterans Day, I remember my grandfather, who fought in World War I as a Jew and an American

Why I published Friderike Burger’s memoir of her service as femme de l’artiste to Stefan Zweig