Holocaust

No, Daniel Barenboim, the Holocaust Didn’t Create Israel

The musician as historian.

Yehuda Bauer
June 21 2017 12:01AM

What Is the Source of the Phrase "Never Again"?

Some say its author was Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League. Is that right?

Philologos
June 21 2017 12:01AM

A Haunting Poem from a Master of Yiddish Verse

“Toys.”

Avraham Sutzkever
June 15 2017 12:01AM

The “Irish Oskar Schindler”

Once portrayed on screen by Gregory Peck.

Michael Riordan
May 22 2017 12:01AM

A Ḥasidic Leader’s Tale of Holocaust Survival

Rebbe on the run.

Samuel Heilman
May 18 2017 12:01AM

Ukraine Finally Comes to Terms with Babi Yar

At last, a monument will stand over Babi Yar.

Norman Naimark
May 11 2017 12:01AM

The American Rabbi Who Hunted Nazis

How Barry Dov Schwartz snuck into a Nazi conference.

Jordan Hiller
April 27 2017 12:01AM

Hijacking Anne Frank’s Name for Publicity

What is the “Anne Frank Center” anyway?

Emma Green
April 26 2017 12:01AM

How the Sultan of Morocco Saved His Jewish Subjects During World War II

And afterward.

Richard Hurowitz
April 26 2017 12:01AM

The Pernicious Claim That Israel Exists Because of the Holocaust

Zionism denial.

Einat Wilf
April 25 2017 12:01AM

Isaac Deutscher’s Non-Jewish Jew

From Ḥasidism to Marxism.

Adam Kirsch
April 24 2017 12:01AM

Heinrich Himmler’s Lost Letter to the Mufti of Jerusalem

Commemorating the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Joy Bernard
April 7 2017 12:01AM

How the Six-Day War Changed Israel and the Jews

“A kind of religious ecstasy.”

Yossi Klein Halevi
April 5 2017 12:01AM

The Midwestern Rabbi’s Daughter Who Sounded the Alarm about Hitler

How a society lady and disappointed actress became a pioneering female diplomat.

Mark Lasswell
April 5 2017 12:01AM
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