Explaining the Holocaust paradox
America’s awareness of the Holocaust only started to come to the fore in the 1970s with the emergence of a broader victim culture
Reviews
46 postsReviews of books, exhibitions, films, television programmes and any other medium on the subject of anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism in its broader context
A new book by one of Israel’s most high profile British supporters is a worthy but ultimately flawed attempt to put the rise of anti-Semitism into a broader political context.
GUEST POST: The blueprint for anti-Semitism
A long read on the single most influential anti-Semitic text shaping animosity to Jews in Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Arab world and beyond
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
A review of a little-known but darkly satirical novel on Prague under Nazi occupation written by a Jewish survivor of the ordeal
GUEST POST: Arendt’s judgements on Israel
The great German-Jewish political thinker was fiercely critical of mainstream Zionism but unequivocally supported Israel’s right to defend itself