“The Drowned and the Saved,” Primo Levi describes an experience that fatally undermined many of his fellow condemned at Auschwitz. Entering the death camp, he had hoped, he wrote, “at least for the solidarity of one’s companions in misfortune.” Instead,...

Entering the death camp, he had hoped, he wrote, “at least for the solidarity of one’s companions in misfortune.” Instead, there were “a thousand sealed-off monads, and between them a desperate covert and continuous struggle.” This was what Levi called...

Holocaust Memorials and museums worldwide, there are now too many in Europe who know very little of the horrors perpetrated in the second quarter of the last century and far too many in the State of Israel’s neighbours in the volatile Middle East...

Ausubel, who grew up in New Mexico, is several generations removed from Nazi-dominated Europe. She is not a despairing witness like Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel or Tadeusz Borowski, survivors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps whose work revealed the...

Although the image of the tortured artist might seem like a stereotypical archetype, there seems no shortage of evidence that people of a creative bent often suffer from mental illness. The examples are manifold – Van Gogh, the painter who had,...

Lives Series by Yale University Press. The first question is whether a book about Trotsky belongs in a Jewish Lives Series in the first place. True, the other figures in the series are a strikingly diverse group of Jews, from King Solomon through Rashi,...