The story has been told before many times, but always deserves a retelling. In the years of the German occupation of Paris between 1940 and 1944, Gestapo officers stationed there made a habit of dropping by Pablo Picasso’s studio on Continue reading
In 1910, as Argentina celebrated its first centennial, Alberto Gerchunoff published Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas), undoubtedly the best known work about the Jewish agricultural settlements at the end of the nineteenth century and early years Continue reading
Alejandro Meter is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of San Diego. He is serving as Guest Editor of TBI’s Freedom of Expression Blog for the week of 4/24 to 4/28, with posts examining the history and memory Continue reading
A journalist contacted me the day after Miroslava was murdered. They wanted a comment to support their story about how organized crime had killed three journalists in Mexico this month. The evidence for that claim? Because the journalists’ stories had Continue reading
