Romania’s secret police trailed a Jewish photographer. Decades later, their files have become a film.
Edward Serotta did not know he was being trailed at the time.
Communism
The Latest
-
Fast Forward -
Opinion A Jewish-American exile behind the Iron Curtain, he never lost his love for East Germany
An Army private named Stephen Wechsler reinvented himself as Victor Grossman, critic of capitalism
-
Film & TV Decades after her ancestor was blacklisted from Hollywood, this teenager is bringing her family’s history to light
Simone Elias’ book teaches the history of Golden Age cinema — including its antisemitism — to Gen Z.
-
Opinion I’ve seen what freedom looks like — and I can see Trump trying to take it away
Amid echoes of the 1980s and the twilight of the Communist regime, it's time for a new generation of dissidents
-
Culture For this historian, anti-Zionism is part of a hallowed Jewish tradition
In 'Citizens of the Whole World,' Benjamin Balthaser explores the buried legacy of the American Jewish Left — and why it's resurfacing now
-
Culture Greetings Comrade, and welcome to the Communist camp for working-class Jews
Located near Beacon, New York, Camp Nitgedaiget offered a proletarian alternative to the Borscht Belt
-
Culture A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era
It's hard not to see echoes between ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the New York Historical and Trump's ideological crackdowns
-
Books 75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' recalls a societal plague that had been quieted but never fully conquered
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
- 2
News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
- 3
Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
- 4
Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Connecticut Catholic school punishes students who targeted ‘Jew Canaan’ rivals on social media
-
Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial is shut down by German authorities
-
Fast Forward Argentina designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization
-
Culture This isn’t Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ — it isn’t I.B. Singer’s either
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
