The Jewish-European heritage
On the day following Israel’s national holocaust memorial day, writing in Haaretz, Fania Oz-Salzberger reminds both Israelis and Europeans that, for centuries, Jewish history has been an enriching...
View ArticleBunkers of the DDR
British urban-exploration geeks report on their tour of a wealth of cold-war and Nazi bunkers in the former East Germany back in 2003. Thrilling and uncomfortable stuff—they were the first to revisit...
View ArticleReview: The Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze, who (it says here) is a senior lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge, has a book out; The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. It is getting some very good...
View ArticleBeach reading: Postwar, by Tony Judt
About halfway through this. It’s a history of Europe, 1945 – 2005, and it’s a great roach-killing doorstop of a thing. It’s good, though. And it’s easy to read in installments of 10 or 15 minutes at a...
View ArticleHistory: The Durnovo Memorandum
I just discovered this amazing document recently. (h/t to Mr. David Tenner — thanks, David.) Durnovo was Russian, and he was the Minister of the Interior for a while under Nicholas II. (His successor...
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