C.C. Aronsfeld

Spain’s Returning Jews

The last 150 years have seen a chequered but eventually triumphant reintegration of Jews into a society whose heritage they helped to mould, says C.C. Aronsfeld

A reconstruction of York Castle in the 14th century, viewed from the south-east. Photograph by Stephen Montgomery

Exodus and Return

C.C. Aronsfeld on Jewish exodus and persecution, 800 years after the massacre in York

Ernst Lissauer and the Hymn of Hate

One of history's little ironies - a period piece of First World War propaganda from a curious source which rebounded on its author.

Immigration into Britain: The Germans

'I have been ostracised by my native country.... I am boycotted by my adopted country'. During the two world wars Germans in Britain found themselves to be enemy aliens, victims of suspicion and prejudice in a country which had been their refuge from a hostile homeland.