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29501. Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Arab Nationalist and Muslim Leader
and Syria, and an end to Jewish immigration into Palestine. He organized demonstrations in the winter ... establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine), to demand independence for Palestine, and to promote ... initiated violent riots in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem after listening to a number of speeches ... leader of the Muslim community would help Arab leaders accept a future Jewish homeland in Palestine. Al
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29502. Erica Lehrer
-made figurines depicting Jews. And she is the author of Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in ... Unquiet Places. ERICA LEHRER: Anything that touches on contemporary Polish-Jewish relations is so fraught ... Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places. Welcome to Voices on Antisemitism, a ... Kazimierz, which is the historical Jewish quarter of the city. And I curated an exhibition called “Souvenir
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29503. The Riegner Telegram
Countries in western Europe saw an increase in German Jewish immigration, and after Germany’s annexation of ... annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe,” Nazi Germany’s initial goal ... against unarmed and defenseless Jewish working people.” Both Allied ... Nahum Goldmann, a founder of the World Jewish Congress, an international Zionist representative body
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29504. Dr. Marion Kaplan
Professional Background Dr. Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History ... Jewish Refugees in Portugal during World War II.” Dr. Kaplan has written or contributed to a wealth of ... published works. Books published include Gender and Jewish History, co-edited with Deborah Dash Moore ... (2011); Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 (2008); Jewish Daily Life in
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29505. Michael Meng 2010
Encountering Jewish Sites in Postwar Germany and Poland,” which will be coming out with Harvard University ... Jewish Sites in Postwar Germany and Poland as well as, “Did the Poles Collaborate or Resist the Nazis ... Future (2010); “The Politics of Antifascism: Historic Preservation, Jewish Sites, and the Rebuilding of ... the Nazi Past (2008); “East Germany’s Jewish Question: The Return and Preservation of Jewish Sites in
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29506. Vienna
,000 persons of mixed Jewish-Christian background. Including converts from Judaism, the Viennese Jewish ... was an important center of Jewish culture and education. The city was also a center of Zionist thought ... Anschluss. Once in power, the Nazis quickly applied German anti-Jewish ... economic, cultural, and social life of the former Austria. Officials closed Jewish community offices and
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29507. Oskar Schindler
“Aryanize” and “Germanize” Jewish-owned and Polish-owned businesses in the so-called General Government ... (Generalgouvernement), he bought Rekord Ltd., a Jewish-owned enamelware manufacturer, in November 1939. He converted ... . While Schindler operated two other factories in Kraków, only at Emalia did he employ Jewish workers who ... 1,000 were Jewish forced laborers, whom the Germans had relocated from the Kraków ghetto after its
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29508. Rescue
Jews among non-Jewish populations, especially in eastern Europe, was a daunting obstacle to rescue ... operation, scheduled for the night of October 1–2, 1943. With the help of their non-Jewish neighbors and ... country's total Jewish population of 7,800) in small fishing boats, to safety in neutral Sweden ... and the communist Polish People's Army (Armia Ludowa-AL) assisted Jewish fighters by attacking German
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29509. Dr. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
the Center for Jewish Studies; and Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Maria Curie ... WWII as Depicted in Jewish Memorial Books.” Professor Adamczyk-Garbowska has made significant ... contributions to Jewish and literature studies. She is the author of Odcienie tożsamości: Literatura żydowska ... jako zjawisko wielojęzyczne [Shades of Identity: Jewish Literature As a Multilingual Phenomenon
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29510. Dr. Michael Meng
Dr. Meng conducted research for his project, “Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Sites in Postwar ... the author of the forthcoming book Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Sites in Postwar Germany and ... Historic Preservation, Jewish Sites, and the Rebuilding of Potsdam’s Altstadt,” in editors Gavriel ... ’s Jewish Question: The Return and Preservation of Jewish Sites in East Berlin and Potsdam, 1945-1989” in
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29511. Olga Kartashova
historiography, and trials. She is currently writing her dissertation on the role of Jewish networks in postwar ... justice. Prior to her candidacy, Ms. Kartashova received a bachelor of arts in Polish and Jewish studies ... the East European and Jewish roots of international law, in cooperation with the Minerva Center for ... Friedmann Memorial Fellowship for her research project, “International Networks and Jewish Efforts to
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29512. Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp
was the center of Jewish DP political and social activity in the British zone of occupation. As home ... ), Bergen-Belsen DP camp became synonymous with the plight of the Jewish DPs in their conflict with the ... the camp, the Jewish inhabitants of Bergen-Belsen comprised the only exclusively Jewish DP population ... the only all-Jewish camp in the British zone of Germany, the camp's survivors struggled with the
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29513. A Letter to the Late Mademoiselle Jeanne
Jewish kindergarten ‘Nos Petits’ in Brussels. When arrests and deportations of Jews began in 1942 ... she worked with Belgian and Jewish resistance units, helping to find hiding places for 2 ... ,000 children throughout Belgium. Daman also helped rescue many Jewish men about to be deported as slave ... became a teacher, and later headmistress, of the Jewish kindergarten ‘Nos Petits’ in Brussels. When
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29514. Stanislawow (by Nechama Tec)
was probably their top priority, although a few factories continued to operate with Jewish laborers ... forests. Among these escapees were Jewish laborers who had been employed outside the ghetto. The ... Among those who escaped were Jewish employees of the Morgoshes leather factory. This group was led by ... leaders kept the road safe for seventy Jewish laborers. The entire group reached the forests close to the
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29515. Watching from the Window
Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses in Lorrach, Germany, Bernard Loeb’s neighbors turn on him. When ... Minutes earlier they forced a Jewish family out of their home, and into the street. It’s October of 1940 ... with a Jewish man named Bernhard Loeb. He lived in Lörrach for many years with his wife, Juliane ... and their five children. Bernard was a leader in the local Jewish community. He was also
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29516. Dr. Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
History from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research focuses on Polish-Jewish relations ... antisemitism, and ethnic violence in Poland and in Polish-Jewish diaspora after the Holocaust. She is an ... author of two books on postwar Polish-Jewish history. Her most recent publication, Beyond Violence ... Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia in 1944-1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), is a
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29517. Kathrin Haurand
Haurand has published articles on the history of antisemitism, as well as on Jewish communities in the ... including the Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard ... at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies in Berlin, where she is also a member of the research ... group on Jewish Diaspora Politics. She has received research fellowships from the Inter-University
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29518. Salonika
. Before World War II, Salonika had the largest Jewish community in Greece ... At the time of the German occupation, the Jewish population was about 50,000. Within a week of the ... occupation, the Germans arrested the Jewish leadership, evicted hundreds of Jewish families and confiscated ... their apartments, and expropriated the Jewish hospital for use by the German army. The Germans plundered
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29519. Electronic Resources
,000 journals as well as books and dissertations published worldwide in over 40 languages. Index to Jewish ... Periodicals Indexes more than 160 English-language journals on Jewish history, activity, and thought ... Includes guides to articles, book reviews, and feature stories devoted to Jewish affairs published since ... researchers outside the Museum. RAMBI: A Jewish Studies Index Indexes articles on Jewish studies compiled
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29520. Refugees
western Europe and the Americas feared an influx of refugees. About 85,000 Jewish refugees (out of 120 ... ,000 Jewish emigrants) reached the United States between March 1938 and September 1939, but this level of ... significant numbers of refugees, although Bolivia would admit around 30,000 Jewish immigrants between 1938 and ... In a highly publicized event in May–June 1939, the United States refused to admit over 900 Jewish
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29521. Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp
Background Feldafing was the first all-Jewish displaced ... 1946, about 4,000 Jews lived at Feldafing and by Passover 1951, 1,585 Jewish DPs remained in the camp ... primarily to house 3,000 Hungarian Jews. However, until July 1945, the camp housed many non-Jewish ... in convincing the commandants of Dachau and Feldafing to empty Feldafing of its non-Jewish Polish and
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29522. Subcarpathian Rus (Ukraine)
Jewish immigration into Subcarpathian Rus increased after the Partitions of Poland in the late eighteenth ... Jewish residents of the two large towns of Munkacs (Mukachevo) and Ungvar (Uzhhorod) made a living in ... instead of the traditional Jewish heder could choose between Ukrainian, Czech, Hungarian, and ... to Czech-language public Jewish schools. Some Jewish families continued to have their children
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29523. Vittel
Eventually, the SS also sent to the Vittel camp Jewish prisoners from outside ... France as hostages to exchange for German citizens interned abroad. Most of Vittel's Jewish detainees ... German camps. Jewish Hostages at Vittel The Germans hoped to exchange the citizens of ... non-Jewish enemy citizens under German control, the German Foreign Office proposed to the SS that it
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29524. Dr. Kamil Kijek
for Jewish History in New York. He possesses skills in Polish, English, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish ... violence and anti-Semitism On the Idiosyncratic Effect of the State Education System Among the Jewish Youth ... Kijek’s conference presentations partly include, “National Core or Polysytem? Language and Jewish Youth ... in Interwar Poland” at the XVI World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, 2013, and “Faithful but
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29525. 2024 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar
Jewish experiences of dispossession and looting during World War II, as well as processes of restitution ... contexts, including in France, Austria, and Poland. The Seminar will also shed light on how Jewish claims ... ’s Studies; German Studies; History of Material Culture; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Jewish Studies; Law ... Studies. The Seminar aims to deepen, broaden, and enrich how we teach Jewish responses to the Holocaust