2023-05-23 22:19
By Claudia Moscovici
In his new book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, New York, 2023), Oren Kessler traces… Read More
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2023-01-10 20:40
By Claudia Moscovici
Although Bruno Kreisky and Simon Wiesenthal were political rivals, I deliberately chose the title “Kreisky and Wiesenthal” for this article to highlig… Read More
2022-11-18 21:19
The Talmud states: “Whoever destroys a soul, it is as if he destroyed the whole world. And whoever saves a life, it is as if he saved the whole world” (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9… Read More
2020-12-14 21:59
By Claudia Moscovici
We are already very familiar with the policy of isolationism during the 1940’s, “America First”, whose main spokesman was the famous aviator Charles… Read More
2020-08-18 16:38
by Claudia Moscovici
If young women today harbor any doubts about whether or not the feminist movements in the sixties, seventies and eighties were necessary, I would urge them to read Bre… Read More
2020-08-07 20:19
Governor Whitmer please open movie theaters (with the mask mandate and social
Like many other people, I really miss the social experience of going to the movie theater with family and frien… Read More
2020-07-29 16:01
Young Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new pro-Israel “Tribe”, HaShevet
By Claudia Moscovici
The Jews, though perhaps a “tribe” (HaShevet), have always had signifi… Read More
2020-07-28 22:39
Young Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new “Tribe”, HaShevet
By Claudia Moscovici
The Jews, though perhaps a “tribe” (HaShevet), have always had significant intern… Read More
2020-06-29 18:32
The Jewish National Fund: Growing Zionism
By Claudia Moscovici
The Holocaust underscored for the Jewish people the necessity—and, many would argue, the historic right–o… Read More
2020-06-19 19:42
Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant Friends: An homage to friendship among women and to writing
By Claudia Moscovici
It is unspeakably sad to lose one’s best friends. Even more so… Read More
2020-06-15 18:26
Adela Cojab Moadeb: Fighting BDS and anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses
By Claudia Moscovici
In her article in the New York Post (December 14, 2019) about her fight against anti-Semitis… Read More
2020-06-05 19:31
by Claudia Moscovici
The French literary critic of Romanian origin, Dan Burcea, issued a challenge on his blog, Lettres Capitales, to fellow writers around the globe: Which do we most… Read More
2020-01-23 21:06
A Spiritual Visionary: Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mind Heart and Soul by Edward K. Kaplan
By Claudia Moscovici
Edward K. Kaplan’s monumental new biography of Abra… Read More
2020-01-03 20:46
This article was originally published on History News Network:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173922
by Claudia Moscovici, author of Holocaust Memories (Rowman & Littlefield, 20… Read More
2019-08-08 20:10
The Turning Point of the War: Review of 1941 by Andrew Nagorski
by Claudia Moscovici
We tend to think of D-Day as the turning point of WWII: the day the Allies landed in Normandy to libera… Read More
2019-04-29 19:54
No Friends but the mountains: Documentary Filmmaker Kae Bahar’s eloquent call for Kurdish nationhood
by Claudia Moscovici
Documentary film director Kae Bahar’s No Friends but t… Read More
2017-05-09 19:49
by Claudia Moscovici
As Peter Balakian points out in the Preface of his book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian genocide and America’s response (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), the… Read More
2017-04-10 22:53
Michael Bornstein’s Holocaust survival story is the stuff that legends are made of. A few years ago, Bornstein ran across a photo taken from footage taken by Soviet troops of the rec… Read More
2017-04-09 17:56
A First-Class Experience: CEO Paul Glantz re-Emagines Movie Theaters
by Claudia Moscovici
Ten years ago, many thought that movie theaters would go by the wayside, the way the video rental i… Read More
2016-12-15 19:28
Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time
By Claudia Moscovici
During WWII much of Europe was caught in a vice between fanaticism and terror; between Hitler and St… Read More
2016-09-16 23:56
Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
by Claudia Moscovici
Early childhood development specialists emphasize the importance of having a nurturing and stable enviro… Read More
2016-08-11 17:20
The screen that portrays the horrors of the twentieth Century is fading more rapidly than its audience can bear. Claudia Moscovici’s book will go far to help keep it lit longer.
Rabbi… Read More
2016-03-17 20:13
Joseph Stalin once told U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman “the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” Perhaps this is why readers react so much mor… Read More
2016-03-09 20:50
View of the Reichstag assembly after Hitler’s speech in Berlin on Jan. 30, 1937. Left first row, right: Adolf Hitler. Standing on the steps: the Prussian Premier Hermann Goering. (AP Ph… Read More
2016-03-04 16:00
How do you punish the perpetrators of the biggest genocide in human history? Do they deserve a fair trial, which their millions of victims never got? These are some of the questions… Read More
2016-02-24 01:02
We’re experiencing an election season like no other. The two major political parties in the U.S. find themselves in the unique predicament of elections dominated by party outsiders. F… Read More
2016-02-17 23:01
Hannah Arendt referred to Adolf Eichmann as the paradigm of the banality of evil: an ordinary man led by extraordinary circumstances to exceptional evil. However, given that Eichmann spearh… Read More
2015-12-16 20:47
Between 1940 and 1944, approximately 75,000 Jews were deported from France. Most of them perished in the German concentration camps. Despite these grim statistics, and despite the fa… Read More
2015-10-29 00:15
Primo Levi’s memoir, Survival in Auschwitz (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996, translated by Giulio Einaudi), is not just about the author’s survival in the notorious Nazi co… Read More
2015-10-22 19:39
Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in WWII, the Allies divided Germany into a larger democratic parliamentary state (the Federal Republic of Germany) and a communist state (the Ger… Read More
2015-10-14 16:57
Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir, Night (New York, Hill and Wang, 2006, translated by Marion Wiesel), is one of the best-known and most highly acclaimed work about the Holocaust… Read More
2015-09-01 19:30
When Luisa Zielinski interviewed the Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize winner (2002) and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz in the Paris Review during the summer of 2013, the author was alr… Read More
2015-07-23 19:10
Allan A. Ryan’s Quiet Neighbors (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984) recreates some of the horrors Jewish victims lived through in the Nazi death camps and describes the often… Read More
2015-07-15 19:09
Thomas Segev’s dissertation, Soldiers of Evil (Jerusalem: Domino Press, 1987), goes a long way in explaining the psychology and social background of the Holocaust’s most ruthles… Read More
2015-06-24 20:55
Alan Levy’s study of the life and works of Nazi hunter and world-renowned author Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File (New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1993), probes th… Read More
2015-06-20 20:55
View of the Reichstag assembly after Hitler’s speech in Berlin on Jan. 30, 1937. Left first row, right: Adolf Hitler. Standing on the steps: the Prussian Premier Hermann Goering. (AP Ph… Read More
2015-06-18 20:12
Anti-Semitism has a long history in Hungary, nearly as long as the history of the Jews living in the country. In fact, Hitler was not the first to prescribe armband to mark, isolate and sha… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hateful words: Nazi propaganda and the freedom of expression by Claudia Moscovici The freedom of expression is a double-edged sword. Without it, probably no other freedom is po… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Unbroken: Forgive but never forget by Claudia Moscovici There is a powerful phrase among those sympathetic to Holocaust victims and survivors: Never again! This phrase has two meanings: in o… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Romanian film and topics at the Berlin Film Festival 2014 article by Mihai Fulger translated from Romanian by Claudia Moscovici As is well known, a soccer game and a film (better said, a mot… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The boy in the striped pajamas, the controversial 2006 novel by the Irish author John Boyne, is described in its subtitle as “a fable”. By its own admission, therefore, this nove… Read More
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