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The Compelling Doubleness of Elie Wiesel
In June of 1945, Elie Wiesel was one of Buchenwald’s 400 or so surviving orphans recuperating at the Children’s Rescue Society’s château at Écouis. He was 16 years old and he was…
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Yellow Starlight in Budapest
In 1999, I bought a small apartment in Budapest. It was on the top floor of a building located at the edge of the city’s downtown Seventh District, just off Király Street and…
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Raoul Wallenberg – Sweden’s Hero
Raoul Wallenberg is remembered as the brave Swede who arrived in Budapest in 1944 to head the Swedish diplomatic mission at a time of intense persecution of Hungarian…
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Persecution and Revolution
What was the role of Jews in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956? That can be answered in three words: waiting, seeing, leaving. That, at any rate, is how it was with us and with some…
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Ties That Bind – From Moses to Suez and Sixty Years On
When I tell people that I was born in Egypt, they usually remark, “That’s interesting, but didn’t all the Jews leave with Moses?” I reply that I left in 1956 after the second…
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Legacy Of Soweto
This year, South Africa commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the youth uprisings which tore through the country on 16 June 1976, and ended up being just as important as the…
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Tory Roots
An article by David Rosenberg handpicked from our archive (1985) to give perspective and history to the debate surrounding anti-Semitism:
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher's infamous…
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It Wasn’t Always This Way
Colin Shindler tracks Britain’s Labour Party’s journey from ‘uber-Zionists’ to the Zionophobes of Camp Corbyn, in a preview of JQ’s Summer 2016 issue: During the 1960s there…
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Venice Ghetto is 500 Years Old
Venice is full of monumental histories to its glorious past, from its baroque churches to the grandeur of St. Mark’s Square and the Rialto Bridge thronged with tourists, but for me…
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Eyewitness: The Photos of Lee Miller
Theodore Miller was an engineer in the De Laval Separator works in New York’s Poughkeepsie, and his manner was intolerant, hard driving and tough. Then he had a moment of epiphany;…
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