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The day was bleak and windy. At best, I figured, there would be maybe six hours of daylight. The clouds ...

“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no ...

A Jew on display in a Plexiglas box, in Germany of all places, stands as a flagrant provocation. But there ...

“Eastern Europe’s outcast, Belarus lies at the edge of the region and seems determined to avoid integration with the rest ...

German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...

In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...

For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...

Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...