February 03, 2023 11:45

The cartoons that tell Israel’s story

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

January 12, 2023 18:00

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

An intriguing and forensic new biography of the Jewish former Austrian chancellor

December 29, 2022 14:38

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

Many Soviet Jews initially thought they were building a new Israel, but were soon to be disillusioned

December 02, 2022 10:44

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

This illuminating autobiography, stretching down the decades of the 20th century and republished for the first time in 60 years, recalls what a remarkable woman she was

November 28, 2022 09:41

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

October 06, 2022 15:06

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

September 29, 2022 15:28

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

August 31, 2022 17:48

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

August 12, 2022 15:43

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

June 07, 2022 09:50

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

May 12, 2022 16:30

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

May 04, 2022 10:27

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.

April 25, 2022 13:25

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

March 18, 2022 00:00

Jews and the curse of Munich Book review

Colin Shindler looks back at the city that bred Nazism

February 27, 2022 11:01

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

January 07, 2022 09:31

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