Colin Shindler
Remembering the UN vote that changed Jewish history for ever
It was touch-and-go to the last minute whether there would be a two-thirds majority for the partition of Mandatory Palestine
Book review: The Story of Russia - Russia’s story always excluded Jews
Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past
Book review: Józef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland - Modern Poland’s forgotten founder
A detailed, absorbing book that peels back the complexities of histories to reclaim this figure for a new generation
Gorbachev’s place in the heart of our people
The former Soviet Union leader transformed the place of Jews in Russia — and let them leave
Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them
Any lingering deluded hopes for the future under communism where shattered on the Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952
A watershed moment in how British Jews came to view Israel
The community was riven by disputes over Diaspora criticism of Israel after the Lebanon war, 40 years ago next month
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-45 book review: Deserves a special place on every Jewish bookshelf
Halik Kochanski's mammoth account of the response to the Shoah is an inventory of heroes
Lavrov's 'Hitler was a Jew' claim is part of the long history of Russian antisemitism
Zelensky follows in the footsteps of Jewish dissidents and iconoclasts - a David who does not fear Goliath. This is why Putin and Lavrov wish to turn him into a neo-Nazi.
When Nazis roamed freely in Haifa and Jaffa...this is no fiction
The first Nazi branch outside Germany was set up ninety years ago — in Sarona, by the German Templer immigrants
Jews and the curse of Munich Book review
Colin Shindler looks back at the city that bred Nazism
The year that put Hitler’s beer hall thugs on path to absolute power
In 1922, the Nazis were elevated from a fringe force by extremist violence, Mussolini’s example and sky-rocketing inflation
How the Israeli left finally got to see the true face of Joseph Stalin
Even as its own Mordechai Oren was convicted in a Soviet show trial, Israel’s Mapam party continued its support of the USSR
Putin is trying to erase Stalin’s Jewish victims
The Russian leader is trying to alter history by sidelining his predecessor’s antisemitism
‘Apartheid state’? Israel stood against racist South Africa in ’61
This week in 1961, the Israeli ambassador to the UN condemned apartheid — and set in train a series of realignments
Rosh Hashanah 1939 marked the start of unimaginable horrors
British Jews had only a partial idea of what was coming
Review: The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present
Hope’s book is less than systematic in presenting the Stasi’s escape from justice
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