Holly Case

Holly Case teaches history at Cornell University and is the author of Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea During World War II (Stanford).

Genocide and Ethnic CleansingMarch 13, 2013

Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

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BiographyJanuary 30, 2013

Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld

In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.

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CultureMay 16, 2012

Blind Spot: On Christa Wolf

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Holly Case
CultureMarch 7, 2012

The Uprooted

A new history of Europe’s postwar world and its displaced persons.

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CultureOctober 12, 2011

Innocents Lost: On Postwar Orphans

Tara Zahra explains why orphaned children held a special grip on Europe’s postwar imagination.

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