Jewish history 
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8/1/2021
"Without Pressure from Germany": Hungary's Revisionist History of the Deportation of 18,000 Jews
by Karl Pfeifer
The Hungarian government has sought to deny and obscure its responsibility for the deportation of Jews beginning in 1941.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
7/28/2021
Selling the Holocaust?
Writer Menachem Kaiser discusses the genre of Holocaust writing and the engagment of the generation of grandchildren of survivors with Jewish Currents editors Arielle Angel and Maia Ipp.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/24/2021
Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed
The Spanish government has recently begun rejecting most applications for citizenship from the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; most applicants under the initiative launched in 2015 had been accepted.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
7/9/2021
UIC Prof. Richard S. Levy, One of the Foremost Experts on the History of Antisemitism, Dead at 81
In addition to many articles, translations and contributions to books, Mr. Levy edited the two-volume 2005 book “Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution.”
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7/4/2021
My Parents' Survival Story Implies A Broader 'Intersectionality'
by Ralph Seliger
The attack on Baghdad's Jews in 1941 underscores the ongoing vulnerability of Jews to mob violence.
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SOURCE: Forward
6/28/2021
The Surfside Disaster is Our Generation's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Moment
by Hannah Lebovits
The deadly collapse of the Surfside condo building near Miami should be a call for Jewish Americans to protest for reform in the way that Jewish immigrant workers did after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/18/2021
Children of the Holocaust Who Are Anonymous No More
Researchers using digital enhancement have been able to identify some passengers filmed on a train transporting them to concentration camps; some of those identified are survivors.
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SOURCE: 60 Minutes
5/9/2021
The Ritchie Boys
Stories from members of the Ritchie Boys, a secret U.S. WWII intelligence unit bolstered by German-born Jews.
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5/9/2021
Reflections on Russia's "Victory Day"
by Nadya Williams
Russia's observance of Victory Day prompts reflection on the ways Holocaust survivors and their descendants lived lives shaped by this trauma.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/26/2021
My Grandparents’ Immigration Lies Shaped My Father’s View of Justice
by Daniela Gerson
"My father knew all too well what happens when legal pathways do not exist for people to enter this country: They find alternative ways in, just as his own family had."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
4/18/2021
My Grandfather Fled the Nazis. I Moved to His Old Neighborhood
by Laura Moser
The writer reflects on the meaning of her journey as an American Jew to first claim German citizenship and then move to the town her grandfather had fled.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
4/15/2021
Scholars Fear Impact of Poland's Law on the Holocaust
Poland's right-wing government has sought to promote a narrative of national victimhood by the forces of Nazism and Communism. Historians who study the participation or complicity of Poles in the Holocaust face a threat of legal action that historian Audrey Kichelewski says is chilling.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/30/2021
Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer?
Blake Bailey's new biography of the novelist Philip Roth represented a challenge not least because of Roth's notorious resistance to getting the biographical treatment, but also because of the weakness of the literary biographical tradition in American letters.
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SOURCE: Public Books
4/6/2021
Philanthropy and the “Jewish Continuity Crisis”
by Hadas Binyamini
The particular focus of some large Jewish philanthropic organizations on promoting Zionism and denouncing intermarriage reflects changes in the broader philanthropic universe: private wealth supplanting the welfare state, and rules encouraging charities to invest and amass wealth, and the focus on nuclear families as social units.
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4/4/2021
Hidden Stories of Jewish Resistance in Poland
by Judy Batalion
I was fascinated by the widespread resistance efforts of Polish Jews, but equally by their absence from current understandings of the war. Of all the legions of Holocaust tales, what had happened to this one?
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2021
The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance
by Judy Batalion
"I was raised in a community of Holocaust survivors and had earned a doctorate in women’s history. Why had I never heard these stories?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2021
Israel Reveals Newly Discovered Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls
These are the first new parchment fragments unearthed in Judea in 60 years.
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SOURCE: Go Upstate
3/16/2021
Digging into the History of the Former Dixie Shirt Textile Business in Spartanburg
Founded by an immigrant Jewish family who moved to Spartanburg from New York City, the Dixie Shirt Company connected the histories of American Jews, labor, industry, and war mobilization in the South. Furman historian Diane Vecchio uncovered the story as part of a plan to redevelop the site.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/10/2021
Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript?
Idan Dershowitz claims that a manuscript fragment denounced as a forgery in 1883 is authentic and is a precursor document to the book of Deuteronomy. If he's right, it would be the oldest known biblical manuscript.
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3/14/2021
Attacking Critical Race Theory: A Modern Campaign of Conversion?
by Guy Lancaster
There is a recurrent idea among political elites that particular ideas are the wellspring of social discord and strife, and that ridding society of the idea will usher in unity. The Talmud and the 1619 Project have filled similar roles in different eras.