Holocaust
“I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to everyone.”
The Nazis lost their war against the Allies, but they won their war against the Jews.
What if thousands of texts weren’t burned during the Holocaust?
Mahmoud Abbas says that the Israelis committed “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinians. Why does he believe that, and what does the rest of the Arab world think about the Shoah?
Syndrome K.
Yossi Klein Halevi’s Kaddish.
The Israeli writer joined us last week to talk about growing up in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the movie made about him and his father.
“I hate no race.”
Frugal, modest civil servants, neither worldly nor political—but willing to take risks.
The other great escape.
Iossif Ventouras, heir to Athens and Jerusalem.
“It would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.”
“A surprising sense of regard.”
“If we had killed 10.3 million Jews, I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’”
