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Beware the radical ghosts of underground Budapest

Budapest’s Kiraly bath, one of several thermal baths built by the city’s Ottoman rulers in the 16th century. Credit: Visit Budapest
Budapest’s Kiraly bath, one of several thermal baths built by the city’s Ottoman rulers in the 16th century. Credit: Visit Budapest

Dalia Neis’ new novel takes us inside a mystical world of anarchist diasporism and intersectional comradeship.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Review The Pickle

Eternal victims

A memorial to the Jews killed at Dachau concentration camp.
A memorial to the Jews killed at Dachau concentration camp.

Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews offers a worldview of unchangeable victimhood – and she’s wrong, writes Alexander Jabbari.

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Jewish Culture Middle East Palestine-Israel Review

Can film unteach Hasbara?

woman with hand over mouth

A new documentary, screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival this week, considers whether exposure to video footage of the plight of Palestinians can change the hearts and minds of Israel’s fiercest advocates.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Jewish Culture Review

Will the last Jew to leave Europe please turn out the lights?

Joann Sfar has been called France’s “messiah of the comic book”. His buoyantly optimistic early work rewrote narratives of Jewish-Muslim animosity by sketching a shared history and delineating a path forward for interfaith relations. So why is Sfar’s new novel so full of despair?