In 2017, I visited the House of Flowers in Belgrade, Serbia, the mausoleum that holds the remains of Yugoslavia’s once-indomitable leader, Josip Broz Tito, and his wife, Jovanka. The site feels less ...
State authorities in Croatia and Slovenia have recently indiscriminately designated Tito’s Yugoslavia as totalitarian without reservations. Neither of these authorities referred to any systematic ...
To honour the sacrifices made during the Second World War, concrete sculptures were erected across what was then Yugoslavia.
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Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...
When Rebecca West died in 1983, the New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn paid tribute to her talents. Despite having worked with J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote and James Baldwin, among countless ...
This article recounts a little-known episode in which Yugoslav partisans, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, rescued some 2,500 Jews from the former Italian camp for Jews in the northern ...
It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, ...
Deputies of the Opposition cried “Butcher! Torturer! Nero! Judas! Hypocrite!” and many another heated epithet at Minister of Interior Boza Maximovitch, last week, at Belgrade. They shouted that M.
The Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia is making preparations to publish, in the Servo-Croatian language, Simon Dubnow’s “History of the Jewish People,” it was reported here from Belgrade today ...