Jewish History
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust
And with what shifting emphasis do different countries remember the crime? Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
