“Still Life in Lodz” Asks If Jewish Life in Lodz Is Still Possible or Does It Lie Only in Memory...

Feb 21, 2021 by

Returning to Lodz after 48 years provides bittersweet memories for Ms. Elbaum, she recounts her story through the eyes of a still-life painting, a silent witness to the tragic history.

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The Unanswered Letter Demands an Allegiance to Remembering the Past...

Oct 22, 2020 by

When a journalist comes across a letter written in 1939 she is moved by its desperate plea for help – and begins a quest to find the truth.

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Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook Corrects the Historical Record...

Jul 17, 2019 by

Meir Y. Soloveichik, Matthew Holbreich, Jonathan Silver, and Stuart W. Halpern, the editors of Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook (The Toby Press), recognize that a proper understanding of the United States—its culture, institutions, and concepts of freedom, liberty, and balance of powers—demands an examination of the Hebrew Bible, the source book that influenced the leaders who helped shape American life.

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Placing the Birth of Israel in Its Geo-Political and Historical Context: “Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948”...

Jul 1, 2019 by

Monty Noam Penkower provides an in-depth analysis of the conditions surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel.

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the American Jewish Press...

May 3, 2019 by

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland undertaken to oppose the Nazis’ final effort began April 19, 1943

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The Unrelenting Nature of Antisemitism...

Apr 29, 2019 by

Historical examples of anti-Semitic strain hatred, and the libels inciting hatred and violence

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Book Review: Historical Atlas of Hasidism Sheds Graphic Light on the History and Geography of the Movement...

Mar 29, 2019 by

A cartographic reference work on Hasidism, the movement that developed in 18th century Europe to become one of the largest and most important factions in Judaism.

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