The Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky was one of the pioneering scholars of Marxology. He was engaged as a Marxist activist and social scientist in spaces ranging from European cities like Lviv, ...

Born into royalty but destined for a tragically short life, Margarita Theresa of Spain was a key figure in European […] ...

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When Hungarian retiree Gyula Botos travels to the capital Budapest from the nearby town of Gyal, he tries to avoid the old ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...