The shtetl in Ukraine that made my family is still making history

The town where my grandparents were born and killed is now a major transit point for refugees fleeing westwards

Review: Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries

A work of painstaking scholarship, exhibited in 130 pages of endnotes, writes Bernard Wasserstein

Review: A History of Jews in Germany since 1945

Bernard Wasserstein considers a recent offering from German born American historian Michael Brenner, in his capacity as editor rather than author

David Cesarani: An intellectual giant of his time

Lively but flawed analysis of why and how the Holocaust could have happened

Bernard Wasserstein examines historical argument.

True legacy of Günter Grass

Europe's Jews were a sitting target