Holocaust
Reading The Oppermans is like riding a Ferrari into a slow-motion car crash.
A well-organized attack, carried out in the public eye.
Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.
Focusing on America’s failures to save more Jews in the Holocaust unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today. Here’s how.
Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas revered the man known as Chouchani.
And to keep Jews from leaving Europe.
To the British Foreign Office, their report was the “usual Jewish exaggeration.”
“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.