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Into Another Channel? Literature and Politics in Hungary Gábor Schein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons In the essay below, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, Gábor Schein discusses the impact Hungary's recent political developments have had on the country's literary landscape. Again and again in Eastern Europe, previous generations—with their mute, often invisible tragedies—suffered the truth of these lines by Anna Akhmatova: I, like a river, I am a substitute. My life has flowed Into another channel —from Northern Elegies, trans. D. M. Thomas   The poet who spoke these lines ...

Opinion: It's time to confront the dark postscript to America's role in defeating the Nazis CNN 2/24/2021 Opinion by Lev Golinkin © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images President John F. Kennedy and rocket scientist Wernher von Braun squint into the sun after Kennedy's arrival for a closeup look at the latest in the nations rocket "hardware." Last weekend, the United States deported Friedrich Karl Berger, an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard. The deportation was seen as a triumph of justice. When commenting on the case, Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson lauded the efforts o...

Hungary: Orban critics fight to be heard Celebrating anti-Semitic public figures "This government is not anti-Semitic,” claimed Andras Kovas, Professor for Jewish Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in an interview with DW. However, he agreed that the government does use anti-Semitic stereotypes in its ongoing campaign against Soros. The government has also celebrated public figures who are openly anti-Semitic. The far-right Erno Raffay who had already received numerous awards, was given another in August. In 2015, he had compared migrants from largely Muslim countr...

Rising anti-Semitism in Hungary worries Jewish groups dw.com 12/17/2020 Felix Schlagwein Hungary says it provides a safe environment for its Jewish community. But the government has shown itself to be tolerant of anti-Semitic figures in public life. © Getty Images/G. Kuchta Provided by Deutsche Welle Jewish groups in Hungary and abroad condemned a recent op-ed in the Hungarian online media outlet Origo, in which a government-appointed cultural commissioner compares George Soros to Hitler. Szilard Demeter, the head of Budapest's Petofi Museum of Literature and a loyal supp...