In mid-January, less than a week after Walmart abruptly closed scores of Sam’s Club stores, the CEO of low-cost grocery chain Lidl told a German magazine that his company, too, would pull back its ...

GERMANY’S midsized manufacturers, collectively known as the Mittelstand, are often praised as a group for providing the backbone of the world’s fourth-largest economy. Individually, they are world ...

This article is adapted from the author's remarks at the tenth annual dinner of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, at which he was honored for distinguished scholarship in German history and for ...