What becomes of a name once it is detached from what made it famous? Each of the three essays in this issue explores, in its own way, the problem of reputations that, through constant circulation, eventually become worn down by their misuse. It took Omer Bartov decades to establish his reputation in the academic world:…
Omer Bartov, who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, presents in "Israel: What Went Wrong" a more general critique of the Jewish state, its history, and its relationship to the memory of the Holocaust. Jeffrey Herf responds to him head-on here. A historian of Nazism and antisemitism himself, Herf not only challenges Bartov’s conclusions…
On August 5, 2026, the remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl, Theodor Herzl’s grandparents, were transferred from Belgrade to Jerusalem. Behind this final “family reunification”—which went almost unnoticed—lies a battle over the meaning of Zionism. By presenting Herzl as the heir to an age-old religious and territorial aspiration, the official narrative obscures the true meaning…
Why has the Moroccan government placed Jewish memory at the center of its cultural policies? This recognition protects a history that has long been marginalized, but it also helps construct the narrative of a tolerant, pluralistic Morocco faithful to a moderate form of Islam. Chiara Lutteri examines the domestic and diplomatic uses of this memory,…
The German federal elections – which will take place this Sunday, February 23, 2025 – are of decisive importance for the future of Europe. With this in mind, Monty Ott delivers for K. an investigation into the history of the AfD, which is growing strongly. Now supported by Trump and Musk, and championing Russian interests, since its creation about ten years ago this party has undergone a process of radicalization leading it towards increasingly anti-European and far-right positions. A dive into the networks and ideology of German sovereignism.
The antizionism that dominated the 2001 UN “World Conference against Racism” was neither a completely “new antisemitism” nor was it simply the latest manifestation of an ahistorical and eternal phenomenon. During the peace process in the late 80s and 90s, the intensifying focus on Israel as a key symbol of all that was bad in the world had been in remission, but at Durban, the 1970s “Zionism=Racism” culture returned…
The K. Review documents and analyzes the contemporary realities of Jews in Europe through journalism and stories, essays, interviews, fiction but also through contributions that recount the long history of the Jewish presence in Europe. K. is an online magazine founded in 2021 by journalists and academics from all over Europe, that now publishes weekly issues in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, italian and German. Its editorial board is composed of researchers and journalists from across the continent and beyond.
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The Jewish community of Rhodes did not survive the Shoah. Most of the Rhodesians rounded up by the Nazis on 23 July 1944 for deportation died on the way or were murdered on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There are few traces left of the former Jewish presence in Rhodes today. But it is these traces that interest historian Dario Miccoli. Here he shares his impressions of his recent stay on the island and his desire to reinvest local Jewish history in order to think about its contemporary challenges.
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