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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-24-17
  

  500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History

  More than 500 years after Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, a nascent Jewish community is planting fresh roots in the Sicilian capital, reclaiming a lost, often painful, history, this time with the aid of the local diocese.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  1-23-16
  

  The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semites

  by Gil Troy

  Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose seminal defense of his own faith—and others’—was once memorized by schoolchildren everywhere.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  8-2-15
  

  A salute lost to history

  Hannah Schwarz explores a 1934 photo that appears to show Jewish children in Pittsburgh giving the Nazi salute

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-10-15
  

  Two steps forward, one step back: how World War II changed how we do human research

  by James Bradley

  It’s easy, in retrospect, to portray World War II as a major turning point in the history of medical ethics. But it’s a portrayal we should resist because it blinds us to the troubles that persist to this day in matters of informed consent.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5-19-15
  

  Lithuanians discover that a utility station is built from Jewish gravestones

  Only recently did someone happen to notice this remnant from the country’s anti-Semitic past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-26-15
  

  Guarding Denmark’s Jewish Heritage

  For two centuries, Denmark’s strategy of not treating Jews differently has been highly successful. Yet the threat from violent extremists is now undeniable, and no one can guarantee that a similar attack won’t happen again.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-7-15
  

  Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America

  by Eric Lichtblau

  Largely lost to history is the cruel reality of what “liberation” actually meant for hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors discovered barely alive in the Nazi camps.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1-27-15
  

  The twins of Auschwitz

  by Andy Walker

  When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp 70 years ago many of the prisoners had been killed or marched away by the retreating Nazis. But among those left were some twin children - the subject of disturbing experiments by Dr Josef Mengele.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-25-15
  

  Recalling a Film From the Liberation of the Camps

  ‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-23-15
  

  The voices of Auschwitz

  The 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp could mark the last major commemoration for many Holocaust survivors

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-24-15
  

  How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood

  by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

  That misunderstanding distorts what we think about the Holocaust, and about the Nazis themselves.

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• 9-22-14
  

  Review of Nechama Tec's "Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror"

  by Patrick Henry

  Her latest study breaks new ground even as it reiterates the major themes of her illustrious life’s work.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  9-16-14
  

  Must Muslim Americans Condemn ISIL? Must Turkish Jews Condemn Gaza War?

  by Juan Cole

  It is like forcing all Russian-Americans to say publicly what they think about Vladimir Putin.

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• 8-17-14
  

  The Myth of Jewish Passivity

  by Richard Middleton-Kaplan

  The myth that Jews went passively like sheep to slaughter in the Holocaust remains maddeningly persistent. In actuality, voluminous historical documentation attests to the fact that Jews resisted whenever, wherever, and however it was possible.