History

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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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