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

Also in “Memoir”

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

Editor’s Picks

Letter From the Editor

“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”

The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment

Understanding Apartheid

Embracing a radical critique of Israeli apartheid is a precondition for bringing it to a just end.

Noura Erakat and John Reynolds

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