European cities tolerant to Jews reaping financial benefits: expert
“Cities in which the local Jewish community in 1500 caused an early development of the banking sector have more banks today and, because of this, are more developed today,” says economist Luigi Pascali
An imaginative, moving portrait of King David
The Secret Chord is bold and brazen, creative and adventurous, at times tender and always affecting
Dara Horn: novelist explores memory and history
A Q&A with accomplished Jewish studies scholar and author Dara Horn
Debut author draws on family’s wartime experiences
“I didn’t write a novel about the Holocaust but about post-Holocaust trauma and mostly about reconciliation,” states Renate Krakauer about her debut novel, Only By Blood
France honours former glider pilot for heroic service in World War II
“I’m very proud. When it’s given to me, I will say I will share this medal with those who landed and never made it. They deserve it just as much, but they never lived to see it”
BACKSTORY: Trump, Ford and ‘The International Jew’
Henry Ford, unlike Donald Trump, did not have the requisite “big” personality for the political arena, stage presence and ability to fend off his critics with insults. But the two do share an apparent affinity for bigotry
‘Little Dunkirk’: A very different Holocaust story
Telling the story of Denmark’s inspiring rescue of almost all of its Jewish population of 8,000
The Herzog-Toynbee Debate: Israel, morality and fossils
The Herzog-Toynbee Debate, held 55 years ago, feels as vital now as it was then
BACKSTORY: Sergei Eisenstein’s continuing legacy – Orwell to The Hobbit
Eisenstein was one of the towering Jewish minds of global cinematography, and his epitaph is projected on thousands of silver screens the world over to this day
For historians, the Holocaust presents a conundrum
In an excerpt from his new book, Michael Marrus argues that the Shoah may not direct us how to solve the problems of our time
