Holocaust

In her new role as antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt will attempt to fight a scourge of antisemitism that she seems to regard as incurable.

The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

For too long, we've ignored our real history. We must face where truth can take us.

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.

A new exhibition celebrates the work of three Austrian artists who escaped their country as Nazis took over and created daring work in the years after.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

How the presumption of bystanders’ responsibility crystallized into the predominant opinion.

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.

Two copies of the first-person account were tucked away, largely untouched until after his death. Now, his family is sharing his story.

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.

A new book looks at the lives of Jewish professors who sought asylum in the U.S. and were denied entry.

Decades after the war, a group of prosecutors and historians discovered the truth about a mysterious SS training camp in occupied Poland.

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

Agitprop, Israel, and the shape of the world after WWII.

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.

Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.

It is not just what is remembered that is important, but how it is remembered.

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.