It’s back-to-school time for K., and with it comes the realization that current trends are continuing: antisemitism in Europe shows no sign of abating; the scandalous situation in the West Bank has worsened; and the betrayal of the principles upon which the State of Israel was founded remains a constant under the government still in…
Fania Oz-Salzberger, a historian of ideas and the daughter of Amos Oz, rejects the deadly confrontation between supporters of Israel and Palestine. Opposing zero-sum narratives and absolute conceptions of justice, she affirms the equal national legitimacy of both peoples, distinguishes between historical anti-Zionism and the form of anti-Zionism that today challenges Israel’s very existence, and…
Once the largest in the Arab world, Morocco’s Jewish community now numbers only a very small number of members. At the same time, the government is restoring synagogues, cemeteries, and former Jewish quarters, while new museums showcase this history. For whom is this memory intended? Drawing on the testimonies of Jews who remained in or…
“The Jewish community—there are too many of you,” declared the owner of a snack bar in Les Deux-Alpes this summer. This statement encapsulates an age-old antisemitic obsession—that of “too many Jews”—and mirrors an equally ancient Jewish concern: How many of us are there, and are there enough of us to survive? Ruben Honigmann explores this…
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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