Magazine / Spring 2023

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Germany is acclaimed for its efforts to atone for the Holocaust. But its method of repudiating the past has become a tool of exclusion.

Shatzi Weisberger

“Dying is a very mysterious thing, and I want to experience it.”

Can Holocaust remembrance stones break Spain’s “Pact of Silence” around its civil war?

Andrew Silverstein

The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook

Inspired by Jewish groups that cast criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Hindu American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach.

The Strange Logic of Germany’s Antisemitism Bureaucrats

An army of antisemitism commissioners was supposed to help Germany atone for its past. Critics say it is evidence of a memory effort gone haywire.

Looking for a Lineage in the Lusk Archive

The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.

Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova

Must We Have Children?

An investigation of the biblical injunction to “be fruitful and multiply.”

Laynie Soloman in conversation with Sophie Lewis

The Theologian of the Abyss

“He claimed that God did not exist, and if He did exist, must be an idiot.”

Daniel Guebel Introduced and translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira

The images that comprise Open evoke the almost spectral omnipresence of a malevolent state power.

Morgan Ashcom Introduced by Zoé Samudzi

“Without you, imagine, otherwise the paltry sum of speech I’d be.”

“in the broadest conception / of black music, which is the / truest conception of black / music, black music can’t be / conceived.”

Shall We Not Revenge?

In his polemic against Germany’s “Theater of Memory”—which relegates Jews to bit parts in the nation’s redemption narrative—poet Max Czollek may have traded one melodrama for another.

Sanders Isaac Bernstein

Exile in the Interior

In his recently reissued Hebrew novel, Anton Shammas uses the arabesque’s infinity to contest the Zionist enclosures of Palestinian life.

Isabella Hammad

For novelist Rona Jaffe, the drive for independence was inculcated in the intimate sphere of the family, where care could look an awful lot like coercion.