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

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Editor’s Picks

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 Trap of Palestinian Participation

An open letter considers the impossible choice facing Palestinians: Participate as a token in conversations premised on their oppression, or be branded rejectionists.

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