Monica Porter

Ice cream makers are not our moral arbiters

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

Brave teens 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.

Fiction on firm factual base

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. '

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