Eyal Press is an author and journalist based in New York. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, the Raritan Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of Absolute Convictions, and a past recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
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On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save t... SEE MORE