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 ...

WATCH Katya Soldak’s conversation with journalist Viktor Vresnik. (To hear the full interview with journalist Viktor Vresnik, and hear more in-depth analysis and on-the-ground anecdotes about the ...

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 ...

It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the heart of the Balkans, Yugoslavia united many Slavic nations — but not Bulgaria. Geography, politics, and identity kept ...

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 ...