The New York Review of Books

The Threat in Hungary: An Exchange

June 23, 2011

Hungary: The Threat

April 28, 2011

Heroes from Hungary

November 19, 2009

Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals Through Germany to the United States, 1919–1945 by Tibor Frank

Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America by Kati Marton

Can We Believe General Karl Wolff?

November 20, 2008

‘Hitler’s Secret Plot’

September 25, 2008

Did Hitler Plan to Kidnap the Pope?

June 12, 2008

A Special Mission: Hitler’s Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman

‘Did the Revolution Have to Fail?’: An Exchange

June 28, 2007

The Hungarian Revolution: An Exchange

April 26, 2007

Did the Revolution Have to Fail?

March 1, 2007

Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing, with texts by George Konrad, François Fejtö, Erich Lessing, and Nicolas Bauquet

Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen

Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities by László Eörsi, translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo

A Good Comrade: János Kádár, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough

Scandal in Budapest

October 19, 2006

Giants at Heart

July 14, 2005

Survival of the Smallest

March 10, 2005

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe—A Dwarf Family’s Survival of the Holocaust by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev

Improvising the Holocaust

September 23, 2004

The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus

Stranger in Hell

September 25, 2003

Fateless by Imre Kertész, translated from the Hungarian by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson

Jews and Catholics

December 19, 2002

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

The Crime of the Century

September 26, 2002

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark

In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack

The Massacre in History edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts

Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War by Stuart J. Kaufman

Jews in Poland

February 14, 2002

Artful Dodger

November 15, 2001

Masquerade: Dancing around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary by Tivadar Soros, edited and translated from the Esperanto by Humphrey Tonkin, with forewords by Paul and George Soros

‘Neighbors’

November 15, 2001

‘Neighbors’: An Exchange

September 20, 2001

Heroes and Victims

May 31, 2001

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Jan T. Gross

The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria’s Jews Survived the Holocaust Tzvetan Todorov, translated from the French by Arthur Denner

The Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933–1945 Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard, translated from the French by James A. Moorhouse, with an introduction by Michael Berenbaum

Duels in the Sunshine

October 19, 2000

Injustice in Austria

October 5, 2000

Strangers at Home

July 20, 2000

Sunshine a film directed by István Szabó

The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews’

June 15, 2000

The Pope, the Nazis & the Jews

March 23, 2000

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell

The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe by Jonathan Luxmoore, by Jolanta Babiuch

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 by Michael Phayer

Controversial Concordats: The Vatican’s Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler edited by Frank J. Coppa

The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI edited by Georges Passelecq, and Bernard Suchecky, Translated from the French by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Garry Wills

Survivor in a Sea of Barbarism

April 8, 1999

Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944 by Thomas Sakmyster

Scholars Against Milosevic

November 5, 1998

‘Memories of Hell’: An Exchange

September 25, 1997

Memories of Hell

June 26, 1997

Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Arthur Denner, translated by Abigail Pollak

Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox

Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, translated by Rosette C. Lamont, with an introduction by Lawrence L. Langer

Death Comes in Yellow: Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp by Felicja Karay, translated by Sara Kitai

The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William Templer

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson, translated by Kamil Turowski

Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945 by Richard C. Lukas

Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide edited with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum, with a foreword by Israel W. Charny

Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka by Richard Glazar, translated by Roslyn Theobald, foreword by Wolfgang Benz

Separated at Birth

December 21, 1995

Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930 edited by Thomas Bender, edited by Carl E. Schorske

Post-Post-Communist Hungary

August 11, 1994

Nazis and Resisters

July 14, 1994

Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange

January 13, 1994

The Nuremberg Precedent

November 4, 1993

Misjudgment at Nuremberg

October 7, 1993

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir by Telford Taylor

A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice by Edward Alexander

Ethics and Airpower in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities by Stephen A. Garrett

Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Roxanne Lapidus, by Sima Godfrey, Introduction by Alice Y. Kaplan

Holocaust Heroes

November 5, 1992

Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille

The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust edited by Ivo Herzer

All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943 by Jonathan Steinberg

Norway’s Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective by Samuel Abrahamsen

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas

‘My Brother’s Keeper?’: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust edited by Antony Polonsky

The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer by Józef Garlinski

The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall

Witnesses to Evil

October 22, 1992

In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 by Raul Hilberg

A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis edited by Michael Berenbaum

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas

Strategies of Hell

October 8, 1992

‘The Good Old Days’: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders edited by Ernst Klee, by Willi Dressen, by Volker Riess, translated by Deborah Burnstone, foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss, edited by Steven Paskuly, translated by Andrew Pollinger

In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen by Gordon J. Horwitz

Stella: One Woman’s True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler’s Germany by Peter Wyden

Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin by Inge Deutschkron, translated by Jean Steinberg

In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

Democracy in Romania?

July 16, 1992

Survival in Romania

May 28, 1992

Survivors

March 5, 1992

Who Saved Jews? An Exchange

April 25, 1991

Lithuania and the Jews

January 31, 1991

Heroism in Hell

November 8, 1990

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary by Avraham Tory, translated by Jerzy Michalowicz

Legends of King Christian: Another Exchange

September 27, 1990

The Legend of King Christian: An Exchange

March 29, 1990

‘The Incomprehensible Holocaust’: An Exchange

February 1, 1990

The Incomprehensible Holocaust: An Exchange

December 21, 1989

The Incomprehensible Holocaust

September 28, 1989

Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The “Final Solution” in History by Arno J. Mayer

The Kraków Ghetto and the Plaszów Camp Remembered by Malvina Graf, foreword and notes by George M. Kren

Some Dare to Dream: Frieda Frome’s Escape From Lithuania by Frieda Frome, foreword by Robert Abzug

Double Identity: A Memoir by Zofia S. Kubar

Life With a Star by Jirí Weil, translated by Ruzena Kovarikova, by Roslyn Schloss, preface by Philip Roth

From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938–1947 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz

The Jews and the Poles in World War II by Stefan Korbonski

And I Am Afraid of My Dreams by Wanda Póltawska, translated by Mary Craig

Doctor #117641: A Holocaust Memoir by Louis J. Micheels M.D., foreword by Albert J. Solnit M.D.

Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss, with Evelyn Julia Kent

Unbroken: Resistance and Survival in the Concentration Camps by Len Crome

Lódz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege compiled and edited by Alan Adelson, by Robert Lapides, with annotations and bibliographical notes by Marek Web

Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman

The Holocaust in History by Michael R. Marrus

Unanswered Questions: Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews edited by François Furet

Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman

Fun City

March 16, 1989

Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs

Razing Romania

January 19, 1989

‘Hungary’s New Twist’: An Exchange

November 24, 1988

Hungary: The New Twist

August 18, 1988

Hungary and the Soviet Bloc by Charles Gati

Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948–1954 by George H. Hodos

János Kádár: Selected Speeches and Interviews with an introductory biography by L. Gyurkó

1956: Counter-Revolution in Hungary: Words and Weapons by János Berecz, translated by István Butykay, translation revised by Charles Coutts

Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney, introduction by George Mikes

The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism by Miklós Haraszti, translated by Katalin Landesmann, by Stephen Landesmann, with the help of Steve Wasserman, foreword by George Konrád

The Convert

March 12, 1987

Georg Lukács: Record of a Life—An Autobiographical Sketch edited by István Eörsi, translated by Rodney Livingstone

Georg Lukács and His Generation: 1900–1918 by Mary Gluck

The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon

Georg Lukács: His Life in Pictures and Documents compiled by Éva Fekete, by Éva Karádi

Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis edited by Éva Karádi, by Erzsébet Vezér, Translated from the Hungarian by Albrecht Friedrich

Georg Lukács: Selected Correspondence, 1902–1920, dialogues with Weber, Simmel, Buber, Mannheim, and Others selected, edited, translated, and annotated by Judith Marcus, by Zoltán Tar, with an introduction by Zoltán Tar

The Writing on the Wall

February 27, 1986

A Conglomerate Country

November 7, 1985

The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac

Fascism and Fanaticism

January 17, 1985

How Guilty Were the Germans?

May 31, 1984

The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919–1933 by Thomas Childers

The Germans by Gordon A. Craig

Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century by V. R. Berghahn

Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933–1945 by Ian Kershaw

The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920–1945 by Johnpeter Horst Grill

Hitler, Germans, and the ‘Jewish Question’ by Sarah Gordon

The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919–1945 by Michael H. Kater

The Rise of Hitler: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany, 1918–1933 by Simon Taylor

The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945 by William Sheridan Allen

Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929–1933 by Eve Rosenhaft

The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS by Robert Lewis Koehl

What Was Fascism?

June 2, 1983

What Was Fascism?

March 3, 1983

Who Were the Fascists: Social Roots of European Fascism edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen, edited by Bernt Hagtvet, edited by Jan Petter Myklebust

Who Voted for Hitler? by Richard F. Hamilton

Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange

May 27, 1982

Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived?

February 4, 1982

The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham

A Radical Field Marshal

February 19, 1981

The Survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army, and the Class War, 1848 by Alan Sked

Slovakia: The Forbidden Languages

October 8, 2009