Jewish history

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  ‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits

  by Danya Ruttenberg

  Yes, every situation is different. That doesn’t mean we can’t compare them.

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• 5/25/19
  

  How the Debate Over the Use of the Term ‘Concentration Camp’ was Amicably Resolved in 1998

  by Ralph Seliger

  How the Japanese-American organizers of a museum exhibit at Ellis Island entitled “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience” came to an amicable agreement with the  American Jewish Committee (AJC).

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Bund was far from Perfect. It still matters to Jewish History

  by Joshua Meyers

  The Bund embodied the aspirations and identity of millions of Jews for five decades and provided serious answers to the questions Jews faced then and now.

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  5/8/2019
  

  My Zionism is Personal and Complicated

  by Ralph Seliger

  Today’s an increasingly exasperating time for progressives who care about Israel’s future.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/30/19
  

  A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

  Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/1/19
  

  In an era of rising anti-Semitism, should Jewish Americans tack left or right?

  by Andrew Paul

  What a 70-year-old riot says about solidarity.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/19
  

  The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust

  For a while during his captivity, jazz kept Eric Vogel, a Jewish Czech trumpeter, useful to the Nazis—and therefore alive.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/15/19
  

  Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed

  by Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

  Medieval Christians received the message on Good Friday that the Jews who lived in their midst were the enemies of Christians who killed their savior and needed to either convert to Christianity or face divine punishment.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/29/19
  

  Pamela S. Nadell's New book Shows How the Country Influenced Jewish American Women, and Vice Versa

  From Betty Friedan to Sonia Pressman, Bella Abzug and Gerda Lerner, Jewish women had an outsize role in the feminist struggle. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  2/27/19
  

  A ballad in the key of 4G

  by Edwin Black

  One family's history and intergenerational story of survival and hope. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/10/19
  

  Report: Finnish SS volunteers likely killed Jews in WWII

  Finland’s move contrasts with the attitude of some eastern European nations that have sought to diminish their culpability in the Holocaust.

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• 1/22/19
  

  “This is a Boiling Pot on the Hill:” How the United States Created the War Refugee Board and Rescued Jews, Despite FDR

  by Rafael Medoff

  On January 22, 1944 —75 years ago today— President Roosevelt reversed himself and established the War Refugee Board. The remarkable story of FDR’s turnabout sheds light on America’s response to the most horrific humanitarian crisis of our time. 

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  2-21-17
  

  Jewish history is under siege in the middle east and these volunteers are risking their lives to protect it

  What had started as a chance meeting in a quiet museum would soon become a vital partnership—spanning oceans and war zones—to preserve ancient history before it vanishes.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-28-14
  

  Museum of Jewish history opens in Poland

  The presidents of Poland and Israel on Tuesday joined Holocaust survivors for the formal opening of a multimedia museum that tells the 1,000-year history of Jewish life in Poland.

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• SOURCE: Vice
  10-31-14
  

  Town Makes the Horrifying Discovery That It's Built Out of Jewish Tombstones

  More than 450 Jewish gravestones have been discovered in the foundations of houses that have been demolished to make way for a new supermarket.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  3-9-14
  

  The Finnish Jews who fought alongside the Nazis

  "We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy."

• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-13-13
  

  Archives readies a schoolgirl’s records and a trove of Jewish treasures for return to Iraq

  The girl’s name was Farah. She had thick, dark hair. And in the school snapshot found in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s ­secret-police headquarters, she is smiling and wearing a pretty dress.She was probably about 13 when the picture was taken in the 1950s. She was a student at the Jewish intermediate school in Baghdad, where she scored a 94 in English and an 88 in history.In another time, her life might have passed unnoticed outside of her family and friends.But her school records, and those of other Iraqi Jews, as well as a trove of water-logged treasures from Baghdad’s Jewish past, are being conserved at the National Archives for their return to Iraq next year....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-12-13
  

  Jewish history museum in Warsaw unveils exquisite reconstruction of synagogue ceiling

  WARSAW, Poland — A Jewish history museum in Warsaw has unveiled a reconstructed synagogue roof with an elaborately painted ceiling modeled on a 17th-century structure, presenting the first object that will go on permanent display in the highly awaited museum.The wooden roof and ceiling will be a key attraction in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is due to open next year in the heart of the city’s former Jewish quarter. Reporters in Warsaw were invited to view it Tuesday.The museum will tell the story of Jewish life in Poland, a complex history spanning 1,000 years, but one that has been forgotten today by many people and which is often overshadowed by the Holocaust....

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  1-24-13
  

  Poignant photograph that proves pensioner's family died at Auschwitz

  It finally proved what the Dorset pensioner had long suspected – that his parents and grandmother perished in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz nearly seven decades ago.Mr Grenville and his sister were among 10,000 Jewish children evacuated from Germany to Britain before the war as part of the Kindertransport refugee mission.They knew their parents Jacob and Klara Greilsamer and grandmother Sara Ottenheimer had been sent to an internment camp in Czechoslovakia and had been able to exchange brief messages with them via the Red Cross....