Arts & Letters Daily search results for “holocaust” (36)
2011-01-01 | Holocaust education has been a failure. It has made us uniquely gullible about the real enemies of liberal democracy more »
2022-02-10 | Eugenics was rejected after the Holocaust. Now it goes by a new name: transhumanism. John Gray explains more »
2012-08-16 | Holocaust histories dodge a central question, says Timothy Snyder: Why did it take place in Eastern Europe rather than elsewhere? more »
2015-11-05 | The mufti of Jerusalem during World War II admired the Nazis and hated and feared Jews. But did he instigate the Holocaust? more »
2013-08-09 | Holocaust memory is a singular accomplishment of the postwar age, a harbinger of human-rights consciousness. How did it emerge? more »
2018-08-04 | Holocaust-deniers, anti-vaccinators, climate-change skeptics: The psychology of denialism runs deep and affects us all more »
2022-11-09 | The Holocaust poses impossible questions for history, including: What to make of perpetrators who acted in contradictory ways? more »
2010-01-01 | Richard Dawkins compares creationists to Holocaust deniers and spoons an acid sauce of mockery onto their absurd confection of half-baked ideas more »
2015-08-25 | How the Holocaust became possible. It arose not from an absence of state authority but from one state's destroying the authority of others more »
2015-09-22 | Neither victim or avenger, Primo Levi was a witness. And though he bristled at the label "Holocaust writer," it's in that role that he matters most more »
2011-01-01 | Evaluating evil. Between 1933 and 1945, 14 million civilians died in lands ruled by Stalin and Hitler. Does that diminish the singularity of the Holocaust? more »
2014-08-16 | Nuclear annihilation, Stalin's terror, the Holocaust: Martin Amis has positioned himself as a serious writer about serious topics. But is he? more »
2013-06-13 | Pope Pius XII: He had no friends, left no journal, sought no advice, and offered no apology for his behavior during the Holocaust more »
2015-11-11 | The response to Timothy Snyder has been rapturous. Most of those cheering, however, are not historians of Nazism, Eastern Europe, or the Holocaust more »
2019-09-14 | What lifted Anne Frank's diary above so many other accounts of the Holocaust? Her remarkably intimate descriptions of coming of age in a kind of cage more »
2018-04-24 | The vast literature on Hitler and Nazism circles around the central engima of the Holocaust: Premeditated action or barbaric improvisation? more »
2013-10-04 | In Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, German women were witnesses to the Holocaust. Some were accessories. And some shot children, one by one more »
2013-12-25 | Colin Wilson was self-taught, erudite, and prone to fatuous speculation. Just the man to help generate the modern era of Holocaust revisionism more »
2017-03-31 | The Holocaust bisected Isaac Deutscher's life. But he remained an optimist, confident that humanity would emerge better off. Was this admirable, or foolish, or both? more »
2011-01-01 | Primo Levi has been placed in a box labeled "Holocaust writer," but his humanism and moral clarity resonate everywhere people are not free more »
2016-03-19 | Jan Gross forced Poland to reckon with its complicity in the Holocaust. Now an effort is underway to undermine the historian and sanitize the past more »
2018-10-02 | Only pessimists survived the Holocaust, and Walter Laqueur was one of them. The scholar of seemingly everything is dead, at 97 more »
2017-06-03 | W.G. Sebald is famous for his Holocaust writing, depiction of vacant landscapes, and sense of drifting melancholy. But comedy was key to his brilliance more »
2020-01-13 | As a signifier of absolute evil, the Holocaust seems incomparable. But does that make it off-limits to historical analogies? more »
2021-12-09 | Why have personal narratives — essays, memoirs — displaced fiction? Vivian Gornick offers two explanations: the Holocaust and the demise of modernism more »
2010-01-01 | 'Obsessions with victimhood and the Holocaust are dying among America''s secular Jewish youth. The old dreams of Zionism are not what they were' more »
2015-08-11 | When and how did news of the Holocaust first reach the West? An investigation discovers no conspiracy of silence, but much ignorance more »
2015-04-21 | We read about the Holocaust to see who we really are. If we had been there, we suspect, we would have failed any moral test more »
2015-12-12 | In the wake of the Holocaust, a prolific Jewish historian started stealing from European archives. Was he a restitution warrior or simply a thief? more »
2020-05-04 | Within 10 years, all Holocaust survivors will be dead. The Shoah Foundation has stockpiled 115,000 hours of their testimony. Is anyone listening? more »
2016-12-29 | The Holocaust historian Saul Friedländer smiled and said the right things, but his friends were not fooled. “You are incapable of emotion,” they told him. “Your soul is arid” more »
2017-07-17 | A Chinese writer sets a novel during the Holocaust? A Jewish boy writes about a black man in 1810? It’s the result that matters, not the creator more »
2017-02-16 | The Holocaust survivor and historian Saul Friedländer has been known as Pavel, Pavlícek, Paul, Shaul, and Saül. His many identities can help us understand our own more »
2011-01-01 | 'The Holocaust''s power to shock: from Babi-Yar, where SS units machine-gunned 33,000 Jews in two days and threw them in a ravine, down to postwar atrocities' more »
2016-08-19 | Was the Holocaust a single event or a post-hoc label for disparate events? The reality seems to be a strange mixture of intent and improvisation more »
2018-01-06 | Aharon Appelfeld, who died this week, didn't speak during the Holocaust. His accent would have given him away as a Jew. So he built a language all his own more »