Opinion | To Coin a Crime
Is killing Jews “the right thing” to do? The Polish government seems to believe it is.
Why Was Season Four of Stranger Things Filmed in a Nazi Prison?
Based on Lukiškės Prison’s past, its present can be a little jarring.
A Headstone for Zach
People told us that it would get better, the grief. But how was this different from forgetting?
In 2021, the Pandemic Has Spawned Anti-Semitism Around the Globe
As the world came to grips with the seriousness of the pandemic last spring, conspiracies arose linking COVID-19 and anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitic Tropes, Abroad and at Home
In July, we documented incidents in 16 different countries to add to the Anti-Semitism Monitor database. However, for the July roundup column, we are focusing...
What to Watch | Harlan Coben’s “The Woods”
The next stop on our diaspora tour of lockdown streaming TV series brings us to Poland, although the route to this locale is a circuitous...
Talk of the Table | Why Feminists Should Eat Dairy on Hanukkah
Hanukkah is associated with the bravery of the Maccabees, the group of heroic Jews who rebelled against the Greek-Syrian empire, defeated it against all odds...
Opinion | Poland and Hungary Are the Tip of the Iceberg
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much from such places as Bratislava, Bucharest or Ljubljana—and no news is good news, right? Look again.
Opinion | Gagging History, Un-Gagging Hate
The debate over Poland’s new ‘Holocaust law’ stokes rising anti-Semitism.
Jewish Poland: A Lost Connection, a Forgotten Identity
“What did I have of a childhood? Nothing!” she exclaims, because from her childhood she remembers mostly the lack of food, missed years of education and years spent in Siberia to escape the Nazi occupation. It is hard to say she really grew up in Poland, hard to find something for which she is grateful.
Auschwitz, in 2011
by Kayla Green
Today marks Yom HaShoah, the day we commemorate those killed during the Holocaust. Across the world, people share stories of those who survived...
The Holocaust Today
By Symi Rom-Rymer
January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 years after the liberation,...