Was gibts Neues? Am 5. September 1941: Marlene Dietrich brach sich durch einen Sturz bei Dreharbeiten den Knöchel. Am 4. Februar 1944: Billy Wilder bereitet die Verfilmung der Lehár-Operette «Der…

Taking in, processing and disseminating information – and at times even commenting on it. This attracted Walter Laqueur to journalism when he was a boy. Today, the 93-year-old historian looks back at…

In the era of computers and television, classic print journalism is mired in a crisis without much hope. It therefore becomes a challenge to explain the fascination journalism has exerted on many…

"In the Holy Writings the trumpet was the freedom of press. It will also tear down the walls of tyranny." Ludwig Börne     Without weapons. Only with words. With words they gained freedom. Knowing…

Paris had a sizeable Jewish migrant population in the interwar period, that grew from around 35.000 Jews with an Eastern or Central European background in 1914 to an estimated 90.000 by the late…

There is a sheet of white paper taped to one of the glass walls in the newsroom of the Jewish Daily Forward in New York. It has three lines of text; the first two are printed: “Does your story have…

Würde sich Europa je von dem grossen Blutvergiessen und der furchtbaren Zerstörung erholen können? Oder war mit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges auch das Ende Europas gekommen? Mit diesen Fragen…