The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/communism/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Communism | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/communism/ 32 32 Pope beatifies 11 ‘martyr’ priests killed by Nazi Germany, Communist Czechoslovakia https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-beatifies-11-martyr-priests-killed-by-nazi-germany-communist-czechoslovakia/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:01:13 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3673108 Proclamation by Leo XIV honors 9 Polish Salesian priests killed at Dachau and Auschwitz during WWII, diocesan pair executed in sham 1951 trial

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]]> Milan Kundera, exiled Czech author and dissident, dies in Paris aged 94 https://www.timesofisrael.com/milan-kundera-exiled-czech-author-and-dissident-dies-in-paris-aged-94/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:06:27 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3050763 Fiction writer's satirical take on one-party state got his works banned in former Czechoslovakia

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]]> Wrestler, rescuer, diplomat, spy: Grandson unmasks his heroic Israeli patriarch https://www.timesofisrael.com/wrestler-rescuer-diplomat-spy-grandson-unmasks-his-heroic-israeli-patriarch/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:10:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2454272 'The Undercover Wrestler' reveals an unknown story of diplomat Zalman On, who used his brawn and brains to save European Jews -- and befriended Frank Sinatra

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]]> Downton Abbey author’s new mystery stars real-life Hitler-loving Mitford sisters https://www.timesofisrael.com/downton-abbey-authors-new-mystery-stars-real-life-hitler-loving-mitford-sisters/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:50:00 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2445664 Jessica Fellowes sets whodunnits in 1930s, with series' latest two books highlighting the unrepentantly fascist Lady Diana Mosley and troubled Hitler hanger-on Unity Mitford

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]]> Celeb philosopher: After pandemic, ‘World as we know it will be just nostalgia’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/celeb-philosopher-after-pandemic-world-as-we-know-it-will-be-just-nostalgia/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:25:03 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2322500 'New communism' proponent Slavoj Zizek denies he's an anti-Semite. Popular thinker says State of Israel has made Jews into yet another 'race enjoying privileges over the natives'

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]]> Jewish Hungarian author and dissident Gyorgy Konrad dies, aged 86 https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-hungarian-author-dissident-gyorgy-konrad-dies-aged-86/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:03:54 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2148226 Holocaust survivor was key figure in movement that led to end of communism in country and was a harsh critic of current PM Viktor Orban

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]]> Marx tombstone vandalized for second time in weeks https://www.timesofisrael.com/marx-tombstone-vandalized-for-second-time-in-weeks/ Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:42:44 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2019702 'Architect of genocide,' 'terror and oppression' and 'mass murder' painted on London grave of father of Communism, two weeks after vandals smashed part of marble plaque

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]]> Czech lawmakers approve tax on church, synagogue compensation https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-lawmakers-approve-tax-on-church-synagogue-compensation/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:49:20 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2004656 Reparations worth $2.6 billion for religious denominations' property seized by post-World War Two Communist regime could be taxed at 19 percent if law passes

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]]> Gloomy German left remembers murder of Rosa Luxemburg https://www.timesofisrael.com/gloomy-german-left-remembers-murder-of-rosa-luxemburg/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 12:37:20 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1997493 The Jewish-born communist activist, killed in 1919 amid social and political unrest following WWI, has become a 'pop icon' for a divided German opposition

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]]> How an American Moses helped lead Romania’s Jews to the Promised Land https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-an-american-moses-helped-lead-romanias-jews-to-the-promised-land/ Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:39:42 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1967449 A new book by the former US Ambassador to Bucharest, who in the 1970s and '80 helped thousands of Jews flee Ceausescu's regime for Israel, chronicles a country in transition

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]]> Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-of-former-cossack-fort-irkutsk-mark-200-years-of-prosperity-and-persecution/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 01:51:58 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1957654 Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide -- and been threatened with expulsion

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]]> How World War I shaped the 20th century and beyond https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-world-war-i-shaped-the-20th-century-and-beyond/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:44:12 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1950119 The 'war to end all wars' turned out to be the opposite, as the post-war settlement provided fertile ground for the rise of Nazism and its horrors

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]]> Lost footage uncovered of Stalin’s anti-Semitic show trial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/08/rudolf-slansky-czechoslovakia-show-trial?CMP=twt_gu Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:53:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1825321 Film found in Czech Republic shows Jewish communist leader accused of supporting Zionism, forced to confess and request death penalty, The Guardian reports

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]]> Prague pedestrians tread unaware on Jewish gravestones https://www.timesofisrael.com/prague-pedestrians-tread-unaware-on-jewish-gravestones/ Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:46:31 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1816886 Communist-built pavement in Czech capital used slabs with Hebrew inscriptions taken from derelict cemetery; despite many complaints by Jewish community, issue was never resolved

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]]> In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-frozen-siberia-a-small-jewish-community-is-unthawed/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:00:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1805415 On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker's grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years

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