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Holocaust

Remembering a Great Jewish Historian and Fearless Polemicist

Lucy Dawidowicz.

Robert King
Dec. 6 2019 12:01AM

The Non-Jewish Pole Who Snuck Into Auschwitz to Document Its Horrors

Intentionally incarcerated there from 1940 to 1943, Witold Pilecki saw its transformation from a particularly brutal prison into the death factory it is now notorious for being.

Jared Sorhaindo
Dec. 4 2019 12:01AM

Primo Levi, Zionist

“More than any other country, Israel must live.”

Alvin Rosenfeld
Dec. 2 2019 12:01AM

Why “Jojo Rabbit” Fails to Make Nazism Funny

Comedy falters at the gates of hell.

Ross Douthat
Nov. 26 2019 12:01AM

The Moral Conundrum of Jews Who Helped the Nazis, and How Israel Addressed It

When egocentric fantasy passes for higher morality.

David Mikics
Nov. 19 2019 12:01AM

To Compare U.S. Immigration Policy with the Holocaust Is to Appropriate the Latter’s Gravity for Political Effect

El Paso is not Auschwitz.

Alvin Rosenfeld
Nov. 11 2019 12:01AM

The Race to Preserve the History of Welsh Jewry

In South Wales, a once-strong Jewish community has all but disappeared.

BBC
Nov. 11 2019 12:01AM

How the Holocaust Brought a Great Yiddish Writer to Forsake Poetry for Epic Prose

Chava Rosenfarb’s poetry by other means.

Marc Caplan
Nov. 8 2019 12:01AM

How Dwight Eisenhower Came to the Jews’ Aid after the Holocaust

Helping to memorialize the Shoah and to protect survivors.

Benjamin Runkle
Oct. 16 2019 12:01AM

A Romanian Film about Holocaust Remembrance and Denial Is a Searing Satire with a Dark Void at Its Core

Only interested in dead Jews.

Dara Horn
Oct. 10 2019 12:01AM

Pre-Yom Kippur Thoughts about Two Giants of Hebrew Literature, Separated by 900 Years

S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”

Stuart Schoffman
Oct. 4 2019 12:01AM

Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Philosophy of Jewish History, Cultivated During Nazi Rule

In This Hour.

Michael Marmur
Oct. 2 2019 12:01AM

In His Two Great Novels, Vasily Grossman Exposed the Similarities between Nazism and Communism, and Their Shared Consequences for the Jews

Stalingrad.

Gary Saul Morson
Sept. 27 2019 12:01AM

The Hollywood Mogul Who Founded Universal Studios and Rescued Jews from Hitler’s Germany

Carl Laemmle.

Rafael Medoff and Sandy Einstein
Sept. 26 2019 12:01AM
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