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29601. Sarah Phillips Casteel
Modernities. Dr. Casteel’s research is situated at the intersection of Black studies and Jewish studies. By ... entanglements of diaspora cultures. Her monograph Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination ... (Columbia UP, 2016) broadened discussion of Black-Jewish relations beyond the U.S. national frame by ... emerging conversations between postcolonial studies and Jewish studies, Dr. Casteel co-edited Caribbean
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29602. Atina Grossmann
Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (with M.Edele and S ... completing an annotated document collection on Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany 1945-1949 for the Jewish ... Source Editions published by the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture—Simon Dubnow, the ... on "Jewish Refugees in Iran and India'' is included in the volume Jews and Colonialism, ed. Stefan
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29603. Dr. Emil Kerenji
historian working on a source volume series, Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946. In 2016, he ... modern Jewish and East European history, with expertise in the history of the Holocaust and World War II ... Carolina in Columbia. Education PhD, East European and Jewish history, University of Michigan, Ann ... vol. 40 (2022) “Rebuilding the Community: The Federation of Jewish Communities and American Jewish
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29604. Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp
Zeilsheim maintained a Jewish theatrical group, a synagogue, a jazz orchestra, a sports club named ... Jewish population in the camp reached approximately 3,570 in October of 1946 ... . Zeilsheim was the site of many protests against British policy on Jewish immigration to Palestine. Judah ... Nadich, General Eisenhower's first advisor on Jewish affairs in the European Theatre of Operations
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29605. Causes and Motivations
against “the Jews” in the abstract than the visible persecution or physical harm of Jewish neighbors or ... the national boycott of Jewish businesses of April 1, 1933, for example, and the shocked response of ... depth of antisemitic attitudes varied greatly from areas where the Jewish population was larger and less ... the Netherlands and France, with smaller, more assimilated Jewish populations and traditions of
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29606. Katzenberger Case, March 13, 1942
Background Leo Katzenberger was a prominent Jewish businessman in Nuremberg who owned a ... the Nuremberg Jewish community. Beginning in 1932, he rented an apartment and a small storefront in ... his building at 19 Spittlertorgraben to Irene Seiler, the daughter of a non-Jewish friend. Although ... Katzenberger, commonly called Leo, merchant and head of the Jewish religious community in Nuremberg, and Irene
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29607. Museum and International Center of Photography Share Roman Vishniac Archive Digitally
Jewish family, Vishniac immigrated to Weimar Berlin in 1920 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution ... office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the world’s largest Jewish relief ... documented the lives of immigrants and survivors as well as American Jewish community life, including schools ... organizations, photographing the ruins of Berlin and the efforts of Jewish survivors to rebuild their lives in
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29608. Rosh Hashanah This Year
celebrated the beginning of the new Jewish year with a great feast. I took it for granted that we would ... always have our Jewishness in common. This year, the Jewish year of 5778, another new member has been ... beginning of the new Jewish year with a great feast. I took it for granted that we would always have our ... Jewishness in common. This year, the Jewish year of 5778, another new member has been added to our family
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29609. Putting a Name to a Hidden Face
ritual circumcision ceremony performed on all male Jewish babies when they are eight days old. Because I ... against a circumcision. “It will identify him as being Jewish,” they said. My parents’ dilemma was solved ... operation, called a circumcision.” My father then reminded him of our Jewish tradition and that I would be ... observe this first milestone of a Jewish life. By Al Munzer Two of the most precious photographs
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29610. The "We Will Never Die" Pageant
. Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht, who was Jewish, believed ... Peter Bergson, the militant Zionist leader of the “Committee for a Jewish Army.” Bergson’s committee ... campaigned for the formation of a Jewish Army fighting under Allied command. The committee had already been ... . Bergson’s brash tactics angered American Jewish organizations. However, he and Hecht found eager partners
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29611. Bystanders
in other countries implemented the escalating racial measures, including anti-Jewish measures, which ... religious institutions and Jewish organizations. The second—the focus in this article—refers to “bystanders ... targeted simply because they were Jewish, or during the phase of mass murder, did not offer shelter to Jews ... processing tax forms, including the steep “tax on Jewish wealth” imposed after
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29612. John Mann
Although there is not a single Jewish person living in the area British Member of Parliament John ... Committee Against Antisemitism. JOHN MANN: The Jewish community is the canary in the cage for all of us ... Jewish person among his constituents—or perhaps because of that fact—Mann believes it absolutely proper ... . Antisemitism is worldwide. And so we see some extraordinary examples of countries without much of a Jewish
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29613. Daniel Owen
celebrations of the Jewish community of Oradea, Romania. The Jewish population there has dwindled from a high ... OWEN: One of my main goals in documenting the Jewish community of Oradea was that—being the 70th ... culture, and celebrations of the Jewish community of Oradea, Romania. The Jewish population there has ... the Zion Neologic Synagogue. I didn’t know of a Jewish community in Oradea, currently. And I thought
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29614. Vienna Chanukah 1938
Glass” (Kristallnacht). That night most of Vienna’s synagogues were torched, Jewish stores were looted ... Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht). That night most of Vienna’s synagogues were torched, Jewish stores were ... . Kristallnacht only made it clear that the secular world was denied to us and appeared to galvanize the Jewish ... community to look inward and, in some ways, enhance Jewish life. I had sung in our synagogue’s choir, but
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29615. My Unforgettable Theatrical Experience
On the night of December 15, 2015, the Theater J, at the Jewish Community Center of ... the Jewish Community Center of Washington, was filled to capacity. As a sign of the times, for ... not exclusively, to Jewish audiences, performing plays on Jewish themes: some controversial, about the ... the bill perfectly, especially because we are well-versed in Polish-Jewish relations in Poland before
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29616. The Uilenburgersjoel
Jewish quarter. Regular services were held there from 1735 until 1942. The Jewish quarter was a lively ... Uilenburgersjoel (Uilenburger Synagogue) was built in Amsterdam in 1735, in the center of the Jewish quarter ... Regular services were held there from 1735 until 1942. The Jewish quarter was a lively area in the center ... contentID="11811" style="rightSideFeatureGallery"] Apartment buildings around the synagogue where Jewish
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29617. The Roman Vishniac Collection
The photographer Roman Vishniac created some of the most iconic images of Jewish life in Europe ... Vishniac (1897–1990) was born to a Russian-Jewish family. He grew up in Moscow where he studied biology and ... worked to document Germany-Jewish relief and social service organizations. In 1935, the American ... Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) hired Vishniac to travel to Eastern Europe and take
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29618. The Movement to Boycott the Berlin Olympics of 1936
persecution of Jewish athletes in 1933, Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee (AOC ... tightly managed inspection of German sports facilities in 1934, Brundage stated publicly that Jewish ... alleged the existence of a "Jewish-Communist conspiracy" to keep the United States out of the Games ... . Choices of Individual Athletes Individual Jewish athletes from a number of countries also chose to
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29619. HIAS
1870, aid societies assisted Jewish immigrants arriving in the United States. A wave of eastern ... European Jewish immigration began in 1881, as Russian Jews fled pogroms ... flee persecution in Europe and settle in America. Some Jewish immigrant aid societies at this time had ... World War I, HIAS focused on aid to Jewish immigrants who had already reached the United States, serving
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29620. Aryan
including in legislation. The first major law to revoke the rights of Jewish ... was Jewish. Ironically, the Nuremberg Race Laws of September 1935 ... . “Full-blooded” Jews were those who had three or four Jewish grandparents. In some cases, someone with ... two Jewish grandparents and who also belonged to the Jewish community could also be considered “full
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29621. "Final Solution": Overview
What Was the "Final Solution"? The Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish Question ... Solution" began, the vast majority of Jewish victims were murdered during this period. It is not ... discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures implemented by the Nazis. Today, the "Final Solution" is used as a synonym ... for the genocide of Europe’s Jews. Anti-Jewish Policy Escalates Under the rule of
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29622. Pogroms
term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in ... other countries. The first such incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in ... Odessa in 1821. As a descriptive term, “pogrom” came into common usage with extensive anti-Jewish riots ... government and police encouragement. They raped and murdered their Jewish victims and looted their property
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29623. France
During the interwar period, France was one of the more liberal countries in welcoming Jewish immigrants ... thriving center of Jewish cultural life. In the 1930s, however, unnerved by a significant influx of ... Captain Theodor Dannecker represented the Jewish affairs office of the Reich ... legislation, closely patterned on that of German anti-Jewish decrees and ordinances in place in the German
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29624. Dr. Nina Valbousquet
at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. As the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick ... Antisemitism, Political Christianity, and the Jews: the Impact of Antisemitism on Jewish-Catholic Relations in ... on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, during ... 2016. She was awarded a New York Public Library – Fordham University Fellowship in Jewish studies for
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29625. Amy Smith
Smith has presented the following papers at conferences: “Attitudes of American Soldiers towards Jewish ... Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe” Association for Jewish Studies 43rd Annual Conference, Washington, D ... and Israel between 1945 and 1960,” Association for Jewish Studies 44th Conference, Chicago, December ... ,” Association for Jewish Studies 45th Annual Conference, Boston, December 17, 2013. Ms. Smith was an intern in