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Hitler and the Art of the Deal
HIS RISE TO POWER AS A MASTER MANIPULATOR by Mitchell Abidor Published in the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939, by Volker Ullrich. Alfred A. Knopf,...
View ArticleCaring for Torture Victims
Helen Bamber, founder of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in 1985, died at 89 on this date in 2014. Born in London in 1925, she worked briefly as a secretary for the National...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: Protestantism at 500
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in the essay: Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, by Lyndal Roper. Random House, 2017, 540 pages. WHEN ON NOVEMBER 7 we observe the centennial of the Bolshevik...
View ArticleFascism: What It Isn’t and How Not To Fight It
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray. Melville House, 2017, 259 pages. MARK BRAY’S Antifa can perhaps be considered the definitive statement of...
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Brownshirt Violence and the Nazi Machine
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens. Yale University Press, 2017, 459 pages. OUR DOMINANT image of the German streets,...
View Article“There” vs. “Here”— Message on a Dreydl
by Zachary Gallant TWO WEEKS BACK, I had a large group of friends over to my home in Germany to celebrate Khanike. I’m the only Jew in my village, but as the cofounder of a refugee integration NGO, I...
View ArticleThe “Pope of the Jews”
Angelo Donati, a Jewish businessman and diplomat from the tiny Republic of San Marino who saved several thousand Jews in the Italian occupation zone in France and became known as the “Pope of the...
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Recha Freier and Youth Aliyah
Recha Freier Youth Aliyah (originally called the “Committee for the Assistance of Jewish Youth”) opened its office in Berlin on this date in 1933 — the same day that Adolf Hitler took power as...
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The Plague and the Jews of Strasbourg
On this date in 1349, the city of Strasbourg, located along today’s French-German border, arrested its Jews and charged them with poisoning wells to cause the Black Death (in reality, bubonic plague),...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: London Alexanderplatz
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hofmann. NYRB Classics, 2018, 458 pages. ALFRED DOBLIN’S Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally...
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