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The cartoons that tell Israel’s story

A new book traces the history of the Jewish state through the work of its top caricaturists

By Colin Shindler

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The cartoons that tell Israel’s story

Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity book review: Will the real Bruno please stand up?

Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity book review: Will the real Bruno please stand up?

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UNKNOWN, ISRAEL - JANUARY 1: An undated file photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. (Photo credit should read STF/AFP via Getty Images)

The Essay: The utopian dream that turned into a nightmare for Soviet Jews

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Former American First Lady and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) smiles while boarding a plane, wearing a fur coat, early 1950s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Book review: An admirable portrayal of a leading liberal voice

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Remembering the UN vote that changed Jewish history for ever

It was touch-and-go to the last minute whether there would be a two-thirds majority for the partition of Mandatory Palestine

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November 28, 2022 09:41

Remembering the UN vote that changed Jewish history for ever

Book review: The Story of Russia - Russia’s story always excluded Jews

Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past

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October 6, 2022 14:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the National Space Centre construction site in Moscow on February 27, 2022. (Photo by Sergei GUNEYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GUNEYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Book review: Józef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland - Modern Poland’s forgotten founder

A detailed, absorbing book that peels back the complexities of histories to reclaim this figure for a new generation

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September 29, 2022 14:28

Book review: Józef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland - Modern Poland’s forgotten founder

Gorbachev’s place in the heart of our people

The former Soviet Union leader transformed the place of Jews in Russia — and let them leave

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August 31, 2022 16:48

The ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatchev (L) shakes hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah, under the gaze of former Israeli Nobel peace prize Shimon Peres (R), 10 January at the memorial in Tel Aviv where Rabin was murdered in 1995. Gorbachev arrived here today to participate in a three-day conference organized by the Peres Center for Peace. A bevy of current and former world leaders will also take part in the event in a bid to breathe economic life into the moribund Middle East peace process. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) / AFP / SVEN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

Any lingering deluded hopes for the future under communism where shattered on the Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952

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August 12, 2022 14:43

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

A watershed moment in how British Jews came to view Israel

The community was riven by disputes over Diaspora criticism of Israel after the Lebanon war, 40 years ago next month

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June 7, 2022 08:50

A watershed moment in how British Jews came to view Israel

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-45 book review: Deserves a special place on every Jewish bookshelf

Halik Kochanski's mammoth account of the response to the Shoah is an inventory of heroes

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May 12, 2022 15:30

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-45 book review: Deserves a special place on every Jewish bookshelf

Lavrov's 'Hitler was a Jew' claim is part of the long history of Russian antisemitism

Zelensky follows in the footsteps of Jewish dissidents and iconoclasts - a David who does not fear Goliath. This is why Putin and Lavrov wish to turn him into a neo-Nazi.

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May 4, 2022 09:27

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gestures during a press conference following talks with his Italian counterpart in Moscow, on February 17, 2022. (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

When Nazis roamed freely in Haifa and Jaffa...this is no fiction

The first Nazi branch outside Germany was set up ninety years ago — in Sarona, by the German Templer immigrants

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April 25, 2022 12:25

View of the newly renovated Sarona neighborhood in Tel Aviv, with skyrises and cafes and bars. Sarona was a German Templer colony northeast of the city of Jaffa, one of the earliest modern villages established in Palestine. July 07, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90 *** Local Caption *** ????? ????? ?? ????

Jews and the curse of Munich Book review

Colin Shindler looks back at the city that bred Nazism

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March 18, 2022 24:00

Aerial image of Munich, Germany with Christmas Market and Christmas decoration during sunset.

The year that put Hitler’s beer hall thugs on path to absolute power

In 1922, the Nazis were elevated from a fringe force by extremist violence, Mussolini’s example and sky-rocketing inflation

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February 27, 2022 11:01

The year that put Hitler’s beer hall thugs on path to absolute power

How the Israeli left finally got to see the true face of Joseph Stalin

Even as its own Mordechai Oren was convicted in a Soviet show trial, Israel’s Mapam party continued its support of the USSR

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January 7, 2022 09:31

How the Israeli left finally got to see the true face of Joseph Stalin

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