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 Political Unconscious

Is psychoanalysis in Israel/Palestine doomed to reinforce the dynamics of the occupation?

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Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.

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A lawyer reflects on his experience meeting with asylum seekers in a Texas detention center to prepare them for their credible fear interviews.

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Editor’s Picks

The Jewish Currents staff discusses Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.

Jewish Currents

The Passion of 964 Park Place

A standoff between tenant organizers and yeshiva students over the fate of a Black family’s home summoned the specter of the Crown Heights riots, and provided an object lesson in housing activism at the end of the Covid eviction moratorium.

Ari M. Brostoff

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