“As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine” is about poetry and catastrophe, violence and relief work, artistic literature and documentation, injury and care. I discuss these topics through the lens...

Israelis never hesitated to elaborate ideas, fantasies, critiques, and obsessions about their cinema and its place in the world. Well before a financially viable industry emerged in the late 1960s, filmmakers, government functionaries, critics, journalists, and cinephiles produced...

While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history. Sunday, April 6, 2025 • James...

The deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau began in May 1944. The extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, to which Hungarian Jews were deported, was located within the range of the Allies’ bomber aircraft. This led to demands being made to bomb the site. The fact that the extermination camp was not eventually bombed, along with the...