A poet, raised among refugees in New York's Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

For Armistice Day, we reveal the forgotten story of First World War soldier Private William Lonsdale who twice escaped the firing squad after the Daily Express relentlessly campaigned about a terrible ...

A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...

My German friend Gunther, a former distinguished professor ... His scars were deep and had remained with him. And writing his ...

Paul Leo Ortego was one of the first to enlist when President Woodrow Wilson declared the United States was entering WWI in ...

Berlin-based playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf has a fondness for the dark Germanic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: her 2012 ...

The Brownhelm Historical Association will host an open house from 1-3 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Brownhelm Station Church, 1355 Claus Road in Vermilion, according to a news release. The community is ...

Not all West German women perceived their traditional roles as restrictive. “I always had this idea to be with my children, because I loved being with them," said Huth, now 69. “It never ...

Our story begins with a seemingly chance encounter on a Jerusalem street on Shabbos afternoon as Rabbi Wein was walking home from shul, when he met a man who seemed oddly out of place.