A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot to threaten, intimidate, and massacre Jews made common in late 19th and early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe. Last week, in the continent ...
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...
Many Ashkenazi Jews assume their ancestors came straight from ancient Israel to Germany and Eastern Europe. But that leaves out a huge, often overlooked chapter. When their ancestors left Israel, they ...
It’s ironic that the latest pogrom took place in the country made famous by Anne Frank whose family was initially hidden, but then turned in by another antisemites, and Righteous Gentiles like Corrie ...
Inside the creative process of a play that forces us to reflect on what happens when the world looks away – from the 1940s to ...
The Nazis made the yellow badge infamous around the world, but its roots are much older. Roger Viollet/Getty Images Growing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my grandparents married during the ...
A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital ...
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...