Linda Kinstler — Come To This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends - with Julia Ioffe

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying.

In this major non-fiction debut, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound, Come to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the stories we tell about ourselves, our families and our nations are passed down, how we alter them, and what they demand of us.

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Linda Kinstler is a writer and Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic. She is also a contributing writer at Politico, was managing editor of The New Republic, where she covered the war in Ukraine, and has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Journalism Review, and many others. She lives in Washington, DC.

Kinstler is in conversation with Julia Ioffe, a founding partner and Washington correspondent for Puck, a new media company built around its journalists. She is an internationally recognized expert on Russia and her work on the subject has appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, Politico Magazine, The New Republic, Forbes, and many others. She was a Fulbright scholar in Moscow, where she was also a correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker. She studied Soviet history and Russian literature at Princeton University.

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