Person

Dara Horn

Bylines

The Magic Mountain of Yiddish

Jacob Glatstein’s 1930s Yiddish novel ‘Homecoming at Twilight’ foresaw the coming doom.

by Dara Horn via Tablet on November 13, 2017

Viewing 1–3 of 3

Jewish civilians who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are marched out of the city by Nazi troops

What Holocaust Remembrance Forgets

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.

by Samuel Clowes Huneke via The New Republic on January 18, 2024

Israel Joshua Singer.

The Forgotten Giant of Yiddish Fiction

Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.

by Adam Kirsch via The New Yorker on November 27, 2023

Judah P. Benjamin statue torn off its pedestal.

The Counterlife of Judah P. Benjamin

Enigmatic, bigoted, prominent figure of the Confederacy—and one of the highest-ranking Jew in the history of American government. What do we do with him now?

by Michael Hoberman via Tablet on August 11, 2020

brought to you by

© Bunk History