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Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late

by Sari Botton December 13, 2019December 30, 2022

His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.

by Sari Botton December 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

Book of Lamentations

by Sari Botton October 28, 2019October 19, 2022

In a collaboration between Longreads and Columbia University Journalism School’s The Delacorte Review, Michael Shapiro returns to Israel after 35 years to visit a grave and find a country.

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My Terezin Diary

by Sari Botton September 16, 2019October 19, 2022

Octogenarian documentary filmmaker Zuzana Justman tells the story of her family’s imprisonment at Terezin, a Czech concentration camp also known as Theresienstadt, through the lens of what she didn’t write in the diary she kept then, which she relocated a few years ago.

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Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

by Sari Botton May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

In this collaboration with the non-profit TMI Project, Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

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Our White Supremacy Problem

by Sari Botton May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Devin Naar looks at racism and white supremacy that the Jewish community has internalized and passed down through a pecking order — a kind of colorism perpetrated on those Jews less proximal to whiteness, particularly browner-skinned Sephardic Jews.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

by Rebecca Wong May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

by Rebecca Wong May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

‘Craft Is My Belief System. My Obligation To Writing Is Religious.’

by Lily Meyer March 29, 2019October 19, 2022

Nathan Englander talks about the “super-American world” of Orthodox Judaism, Philip Roth’s funeral, and training himself to write his new novel “kaddish.com” while daydreaming.

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A Second Passport

by Sari Botton February 1, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, instead of returning home after a trip to Israel like most Birthright tourists do, Pam Mandel goes on to Egypt, and beyond.

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