The Many Lives of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
Born obscurely in turbulent times, the notorious text describing a Jewish conspiracy to enslave humanity lives on even today. Why?
Racing Before Hitler
My memories of athletic life as a Jewish teenager in Germany during the tumultuous 1930s.
Survival and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Last month I received two letters that brought back memories of a love story with the Holocaust as background but, for once, not with a tragic ending.
Romain Rolland: Beacon of Light, or Apologist for Evil?
Though he’s now largely unknown, for many Europeans of my generation he was the most important writer of our time. Were we right about him?
"Next Year in Birobidzhan!"
In 1928, a “Jewish autonomous region” was set up in the far east to provide a home for Soviet Jewry. But, as a new book describes, it was no solution at all.
Why Were Euroskeptics Ignored?
For the sake of Europe’s future, it would pay to revisit the many warning signs that, though pointed out at the time, were mocked, dismissed, or denied.
Timothy Snyder: The Newton of the Holocaust?
The Yale historian’s much-lauded new book promises a revolutionary view of the Holocaust. But it misleads more than it enlightens.
Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea
There’s a new national ideology forming in Russia—and “the Jews” play a big part in it.
The Walter Benjamin Brigade
Degenerate Art and the Jewish Grandmother
Demography is Key
Anti-Semitism is only one factor contributing to the demise of European Jewry, and not the most decisive one.