Rudolphina Menzel’s dogs of war—and of peace.
The Rindfleisch massacres.
A documentary about music under the Third Reich.
Reading The Oppermans is like riding a Ferrari into a slow-motion car crash.
A well-organized attack, carried out in the public eye.
The Jewish soldiers who laid siege to Metz in 1870.
Johannes Reuchlin.
“My Judaism lives in everything that I start and that I am.”
Gershom Scholem chose Israel; Theodor Adorno returned to Germany.
“Good Lord, the Christian woman understood!”
How the Dutch painter’s legacy, and that of modern art in general, became intertwined with the fate of European Jewry.
He didn’t so much write about Jews as about their absence.