István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.
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Could Stalin Have Been Stopped?
March 21, 2013
Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
by Frank Costigliola
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The Threat in Hungary: An Exchange
June 23, 2011
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Hungary: The Threat
April 28, 2011
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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
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Can We Believe General Karl Wolff?
November 20, 2008
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‘Hitler’s Secret Plot’
September 25, 2008
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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
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‘Did the Revolution Have to Fail?’: An Exchange
June 28, 2007
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The Hungarian Revolution: An Exchange
April 26, 2007
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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
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Scandal in Budapest
October 19, 2006
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Giants at Heart
July 14, 2005
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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
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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
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Stranger in Hell
September 25, 2003
Fateless
by Imre Kertész, translated from the Hungarian by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson
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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
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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
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Jews in Poland
February 14, 2002
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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
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‘Neighbors’
November 15, 2001
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‘Neighbors’: An Exchange
September 20, 2001
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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
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Duels in the Sunshine
October 19, 2000
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Injustice in Austria
October 5, 2000
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Strangers at Home
July 20, 2000
Sunshine a film directed by István Szabó
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The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews’
June 15, 2000
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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
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Survivor in a Sea of Barbarism
April 8, 1999
Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944
by Thomas Sakmyster
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Scholars Against Milosevic
November 5, 1998
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‘Memories of Hell’: An Exchange
September 25, 1997
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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
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Separated at Birth
December 21, 1995
Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 18701930
edited by Thomas Bender, edited by Carl E. Schorske
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Post-Post-Communist Hungary
August 11, 1994
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Nazis and Resisters
July 14, 1994
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‘Misjudgment at Nuremberg’
March 24, 1994
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Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange
January 13, 1994
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The Nuremberg Precedent
November 4, 1993
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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
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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 19411943
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
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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, 19331945 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
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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
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Democracy in Romania?
July 16, 1992
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Survival in Romania
May 28, 1992
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Survivors
March 5, 1992
The Romanians: A History
by Vlad Georgescu, edited by Matei Calinescu, translated by Alexandra Bley-Vroman, epilogue by Matei Calinescu, by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Jagendorf’s Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944 by Siegfried Jagendorf, introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer
‘Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite’: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr, foreword by Ryszard Kapuscinski
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania by Katherine Verdery
The Fall of Tyrants: The Incredible Story of One Pastor’s Witness, the People of Romania, and the Overthrow of Ceausescu by Laszlo Tokes, with David Porter
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution
by Andrei Codrescu
Romania: The Entangled Revolution International Studies, Praeger by Nestor Ratesh, foreword by Edward N. Luttwak
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Who Saved Jews? An Exchange
April 25, 1991
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Lithuania and the Jews
January 31, 1991
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Heroism in Hell
November 8, 1990
Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary by Avraham Tory, translated by Jerzy Michalowicz
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Legends of King Christian: Another Exchange
September 27, 1990
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The Legend of King Christian: An Exchange
March 29, 1990
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‘The Incomprehensible Holocaust’: An Exchange
February 1, 1990
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The Incomprehensible Holocaust: An Exchange
December 21, 1989
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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, 19381947 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
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Fun City
March 16, 1989
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
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Razing Romania
January 19, 1989
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‘Hungary’s New Twist’: An Exchange
November 24, 1988
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Hungary: The New Twist
August 18, 1988
Hungary and the Soviet Bloc by Charles Gati
Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 19481954 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
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The Convert
March 12, 1987
Georg Lukács: Record of a LifeAn Autobiographical Sketch edited by István Eörsi, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Georg Lukács and His Generation: 19001918 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
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The Writing on the Wall
February 27, 1986
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A Conglomerate Country
November 7, 1985
The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac
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Fascism and Fanaticism
January 17, 1985
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How Guilty Were the Germans?
May 31, 1984
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 19191933
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, 19331945 by Ian Kershaw
The Nazi Movement in Baden, 19201945 by Johnpeter Horst Grill
Hitler, Germans, and the ‘Jewish Question’
by Sarah Gordon
The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 19191945 by Michael H. Kater
The Rise of Hitler: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany, 19181933 by Simon Taylor
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 19221945 by William Sheridan Allen
Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 19291933 by Eve Rosenhaft
The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS by Robert Lewis Koehl
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What Was Fascism?
June 2, 1983
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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
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Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange
May 27, 1982
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Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived?
February 4, 1982
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham
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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
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Slovakia: The Forbidden Languages
October 8, 2009
On September 1, the Slovak parliament made it largely illegal for its citizens to use any language other than Slovak. The use of minority languages in “official” situations is now punishable by fines of up to €5,000 (US $7,270)—and possible offenses include: