Memoir

Making Memory

Notes from the Underground

An overnight stay in the Vilna Ghetto’s newest attraction.

Menachem Kaiser

Are we building Holocaust memory all wrong?

Samuel Holleran

Benyamin Reich’s ‘Imagine: Dreams of the Third Generation’

An Israeli photographer in Berlin explores subterranean currents in Jewish-German relationships.

Not Another Holocaust Book

Sheila Heti’s Motherhood addresses a family’s post-Holocaust grief—without addressing the Shoah outright.

Helen Betya Rubinstein

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The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech

Pro-Israel groups have remade Title VI into a tool of repression—and a second Trump term will supercharge their crusade.

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In an excerpt from her new essay collection Naked, a burlesque performer considers the complications of desire.

Five incarcerated men on the minute-by-minute experience of solitary confinement.

Christopher Blackwell, Aaron Edward Olson, Antoine Davis, Raymond Williams, and Jonathan Kirkpatrick

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A Textbook Case of Genocide

Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

Anatomy of a Moral Panic

The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

Adam Haber and Matylda Figlerowicz

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