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29751. Marc Chagall
Excerpt If a painter is a Jew and paints life, how is he to keep Jewish ... Jewish content will be there, of course, but his art will aim at universal relevance.—Marc Chagall ... Who was Marc Chagall? Artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was born to a Hasidic Jewish family in ... Vitebsk, Russia. Many of his works include broad, rich colors and imagery of Russian and Jewish provincial
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29752. Sara Halpern
to European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1945-1951.” Ms. Halpern can speak and read German and ... Shanghai: The Joint, 14,000 Hungry Refugees, and the Currency Markets,” at the American Jewish Historical ... initiate research on the political, legal, and social challenges of European Jewish emigration from ... was understood by 15,000 Jewish refugees, international Jewish NGOs, the United Nations, and the
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29753. Steven Baumann
and Between Nations: American Humanitarians, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust.” Mr. Baumann is the ... The Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the ... at an American Quaker Farm for European Jewish Refugees in Cuba, 1939-1941” at the Universidad de ... Baumann will explore interactions between American Quakers and Jewish refugees, focusing on the American
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29754. Julia Elsky
Elsky has published several articles on émigré writers and Jewish identity in France, as well as on ... project, “Jewish Émigré Writers under Vichy.” For this project, her research focuses on the Museum’s rich ... archival holdings related to French Jewish communities and the fate of Jewish immigrants in France under ... the Occupation. Her project studies the wartime experience of Jewish Eastern European émigré writers
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29755. Ms. Ionela Ana Dascultu
University of Haifa (Israel). She received her MA in Jewish Culture and Civilization from the ... her project entitled “Jewish Children in Orphanages in Transnistria (1942-1944). History and Memory ... from the Centrala Evreilor collection and the case files of Romanian Orphans in the American Jewish ... Joint Distribution collection. Ms. Dascultu`s research dealt with issues such as the number of Jewish
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29756. Jacquelyn “Jackie” Olson
Europe, including the archive of the Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien), and ... has visited thirteen Jewish cemeteries in Austria, where she interviewed cemetery-keepers about ... research project, "Whose Dead Are They?: The Agency of Living Jewish Relatives on Memory Policy in Austria ... -1965. Olson will work with archival collections copied from the Jewish community of Vienna, and will
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29757. Yitzhak Gitterman
Gitterman (1889-1943) was a director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution ... Committee (JDC) in Poland, and a member of the underground Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska ... in Poland. He took part in the rehabilitation of the Jewish population and the establishment of ... Warsaw in April 1940. Gitterman continued his activities in support of Jewish self-help in Warsaw
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29758. Lvov
Lvov in September 1939; nearly 100,000 were Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland. The Germans ... . Encouraged by German forces to begin violent actions against the Jewish population in Lvov, Ukrainian ... organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine after World War I. For three days, Ukrainian militants went on ... a rampage through the Jewish districts of Lvov. They took groups of Jews to the Jewish cemetery and
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29759. Father Jacques
Jews were individual Christian clergy, who hid thousands of Jewish children in religious institutions ... January 1943, he enrolled three Jewish boys—Hans-Helmut Michel, Jacques-France Halpern, and Maurice ... Schlosser—as students under false names. He hid a fourth Jewish boy, Maurice Bas, as a worker at the school ... He also sheltered Schlosser’s father with a local villager and placed the noted Jewish botanist
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29760. The Berlin Conference
When I heard that the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants ... heard that the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants ... Allies in 1943. What is left now is a museum. We also visited The Jewish Museum devoted to Jewish ... the Jewish citizens of Berlin before the Holocaust. However, most of all, it physically and
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29761. Why I Feel that We Must Move On with the German People
Like many Jewish children who were victimized during World War II, I grew up hating the entire ... Jewish children who were victimized during World War II, I grew up hating the entire German people for ... wondered how he would have treated me back then if he had known that I was Jewish. To this day, I feel only ... —Topography of Terror— describes in great detail the rise of the Nazis, the anti-Jewish laws, and World War II
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29762. Transnistria Governorate
. Shortly after taking control of the territory, Romanian authorities introduced harsh anti-Jewish policies ... overcrowded ghettos alongside the local Jewish population. The Romanians also deported Roma from Romania to ... -Jewish rhetoric. In December 1937, an explicitly antisemitic government came to power. Within weeks, the ... anti-Jewish concept of
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29763. Quakers
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint), and the Joint continued to support the AFSC ... people. After the violent anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogroms ... types of refugees—Jewish groups helped Jews, Catholic groups helped Catholics—but the AFSC's Refugee ... -Aryan Christians” (those considered “racially Jewish” by the Nuremberg
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29764. Being an Outsider
documents her travels to India to connect with the tiny Jewish community there and to unlock her family ... Andrei Codrescu, a Jewish poet and commentator, who was encouraged to change his name to publish in ... anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual ... recognized himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community. Other regulations
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29765. Religion and Identity
pulpit position to teach Jewish studies at an urban-Baltimore Catholic school with a historically African ... Christianity because of the centuries of anti-Jewish rhetoric, prejudice, and violence throughout Europe ... power, the Jewish population became the target of theologically framed prejudices and stereotypes. Jews ... scattering of the Jewish people was interpreted as punishment both for past transgressions and for continued
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29766. Kristallnacht: How Did Religious Leaders in the US Respond?
Massachusetts—local Christian clergy invited their Jewish colleagues to address their congregations for the ... Kristallnacht was to claim that “Jewish persecution only followed after Christians first were persecuted ... would direct special attention, however, to the plight of those of Jewish blood in Europe, whether ... Jewish or Christian in faith …The Jews of the world have been most generous in affording help to their
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29767. Ed Koch
percent of them were Jewish kids, and they weren't very physical. And seventy-five percent were kids from ... host of subjects that the Army wanted you to be proficient in, it was the Jewish kids who would either ... . And there came a point, when every time a Jewish kid would get up and raise his hand, one of the ... Jack LaRue—and when a Jewish kid would raise his hand, LaRue would say, "Who's the next Yid that
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29768. Collaboration and Complicity during the Holocaust
Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Although there was some level of resistance to Nazi Germany in ... sectors of society. Some Polish politicians pressed for the mass emigration of Poland’s Jewish population ... least 2.5 million non-Jewish Polish civilians and soldiers perished. With the occupation of all of ... associated blackmail, and actively participated in the plunder of Jewish property. There were incidents
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29769. The Judgement, in Two Parts
in my hometown in central Poland, a handsome young man, who happened to be Jewish, also returned ... the Germans because they could do all kinds of repairs for them. But the Jewish population in ... ’s property. Finally, the young man’s family was deported to the camps with the rest of the Jewish population ... decapitated bodies. The heartbroken mother had them removed and buried in the Jewish cemetery. There is
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29770. Intermarriage During the Holocaust
Intermarriage During the Holocaust: Jewish and Romani “Mixed” Families in Nazi Europe August 9–18 ... a research workshop entitled Intermarriage during the Holocaust: Jewish and Romani “Mixed” Families ... .” Jews who had non-Jewish spouses, and especially their “mixed” offspring, fundamentally challenged the ... scholars of the Jewish and Romani experience and experts in different geographical areas and methodological
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29771. 2023 Cleveland Luncheon
history of Jews in France. Her books include Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish ... a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award and the winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish ... Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. In his spare time, Yair composes original Jewish music ... Explained,” a video series about anti-Jewish prejudice, and Az Yashir, an album of new shabbat music. Leslie
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29772. Romania
themselves as Jewish, comprising approximately 4 percent of the population ... robbed or seized Jewish-owned businesses. They assaulted, and sometimes killed, Jewish citizens in the ... Particularly gruesome was the murder of dozens of Jewish civilians in the Bucharest slaughterhouse. After the ... the Jewish population in the city of Iasi, the regional capital of Moldavia. Romanian police officials
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29773. Bergen-Belsen In Depth: The Camp Complex
camp" housed several thousand Jewish prisoners in four subcamps under the pretext that they would be ... Allies. Few of the Jewish detainees were ever actually exchanged, and by July 1944, over 4,000 of these ... Theresienstadt. In July 1943, the first transport of Jewish prisoners arrived in the "special camp ... better than in any other camp in Bergen-Belsen; in relative terms, the Jewish prisoners received more
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29774. David Parnes
to a Jewish family of that small town. At dawn - there was no shooting – there were sudden sounds of ... three or four soldiers (where could a Jewish person run?) And mother taking me by the hand went into ... That was a small place with three-four thousand Jewish people. Now there were thirty-fifty thousand of ... either the head of the mayor’s office or the commandant was talking. He said that Jewish people had
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29775. The Immigration of Refugee Children to the United States
German Jewish Children’s Aid ... In response to this news, concerned American Jewish groups founded German Jewish Children’s Aid (GJCA ... Jewish children to the United States. Under the direction of social worker Cecilia Razovsky, GJCA placed ... Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Jewish fraternal organization Brith Sholom recruited a wealthy Philadelphia