Jewish history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/12/19
  

  Russ & Daughters History Goes on Display in New York

  “Russ & Daughters: An Appetizing Story,” from the American Jewish Historical Society, offers a taste of New York’s rich food and cultural history.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Rabbi, the Telegram, and the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-seven years ago today, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It revealed the first comprehensive details about the systematic mass murder that would come to be known as the Holocaust

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  8/6/2019
  

  Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an unholy alliance.

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• 8/4/19
  

  FDR's Token Jewish Refugee Shelter

  by Rafael Medoff

  Granting temporary refuge was a way of addressing the life-and-death crisis that Europe’s Jews faced, without incurring the wrath of those who opposed permanent immigration.

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• 7/17/19
  

  The Truth About the Holocaust and Holocaust Education

  by Ira Bedzow and Stacy Gallin

  A high school principal was removed from his position after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” This is not only unacceptable, it is irresponsible. One does not need to be a professional historian to know that the Holocaust occurred.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

  What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?

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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.