Cafe nostalgia: the coffeehouses that tell Europe’s story

A Jewish man set up the first cafe in England – and in Europe coffee houses were central to Jewish culture, as Monica Porter’s new book details

Review: Billy Wilder on Assignment

Monica Porter enjoys this insightful portrait of Mittel Europa between the wars

Ice cream makers are not our moral arbiters

In today’s 'woke' world, even ice cream involves political activism, writes Monica Porter

The brave teenagers who took on the Nazis

Monica Porter's new book tells the story of courageous children who joined the resistance in World War Two

Review: Einstein on the Run

This book tells the story of how the great Albert Einstein was rescued from the clutches of the Nazis by an Englishman

The Jews of Hungary do not live in fear

Monica Porter says that critics of the Hungarian PM are wide of the mark

Where are the young women?

Monica Porter thinks the younger generation could learn a lot from WIZO stalwarts.

Book review: Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Monica Porter salutes an ex-colleague's Moscow-set novel

The Jew who stays out in the cold

'I only discovered my own Jewish background at the age of 22, back in the 1970s, when my father (a Protestant convert) told me his parents had in fact been Jewish. '

So, will the left blame Islam for Breivik's acts?

It's bleak in the halfway house

Striking doctors shamed by history

Review: Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

A secret Japanese history

Review: Asylum

Inside an intellectual's harsh hiding place

Review: Raoul Wallenberg

Fresh and forensic portrait of Wallenberg