Will the Holocaust Museum in Budapest Be Forced to Collaborate With Known Holocaust Distorters?
In September, the Hungarian publication Népszava reported that the sole institution in Hungary that is dedicated to preserving the record of the Hungarian Holocaust, the Páva Street Holocaust Memorial Center, may be coerced to collaborate with three other Hungarian research institutes. These three institutes, which are controlled by the government, have engaged in Holocaust distortion and/or employed anti-Semites.
Anti-Semitic Tropes, Abroad and at Home
In July, we documented incidents in 16 different countries to add to the Anti-Semitism Monitor database. However, for the July roundup column, we are focusing...
Opinion | Poland and Hungary Are the Tip of the Iceberg
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much from such places as Bratislava, Bucharest or Ljubljana—and no news is good news, right? Look again.
Opinion | We Must Confront the Orbáns of the World
Jews must take the lead in standing up to the Hungarian leader’s anti-Semitism.
People of the Book: Interview with Julie Orringer
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Sitting on a faux cowhide bench with rock music blaring at full volume in a small coffee shop in one of Brooklyn’s hipper...
Jewish Ghosts of Budapest
By Merav Levkowitz
On the last evening of 2010, a Friday, about 35-40 (mostly) young adults, gathered in a non-descript apartment in the center of Budapest’s—actually...