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29776. Dr. Frank Mortara collection
organizations in the United States to assist Jewish refugees including the Emergency Committee to Save the ... Jewish People of Europe, American League for a Free Palestine, Italian Jewish Emergency Committee, United ... Jewish Appeal of Greater New York on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish Congress ... World Jewish Congress, Gruppo Assistenza Bambini Ebrei d'Italia [Committee for the Welfare of Jewish
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29777. [Documents related to education]
This grouping contains documents related to Jewish teachers and the education of Jews under Nazi ... contracts and other documents that deal with Jewish teachers teaching in German schools, the dismissal of ... Jewish teachers, the recruitment of Jewish teachers at Jewish schools, the qualification and work ... experience of Jewish teachers, the personal records of Jewish teachers, Jewish professors at public
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29778. Rabbi Gila Ruskin
At the age of 50, Rabbi Gila Ruskin left her pulpit position to teach Jewish studies at an urban ... FISHMAN: At the age of 50, Rabbi Gila Ruskin left her pulpit position to teach Jewish studies at an urban ... And I taught 11th grade, what they call "Jewish studies." So my job was to teach about the Jewish ... view of the Bible, Jewish culture—so I taught them all about the holidays. We sang songs. Every Friday
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29779. Dan Bar-On
met a woman there and she said, "I was born 1943 in Vienna." And I said, "What Jewish person was ... born 1943 in Vienna?" And then she said, "I was not Jewish at that time." So, I became curious ... Jewish and she was killed in the Holocaust, and my reaction was to go to Israel, to change my name, to ... become Jewish." And I asked her, "Why did you react in such a- because you didn't even know that aunt
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29780. Leo Hanin
Leo's Jewish family lived in Vilna, which in 1913 was part of the Russian Empire. In 1916 ... fearing revolution, his family left for Harbin in northern China, a city with a well-organized Jewish ... community. There Leo joined a Zionist group and studied Jewish history, and for two years attended a Jewish ... Shanghai. There he attended a British school and learned English, and he also served in the Jewish Shanghai
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29781. Wagner-Rogers Bill
Czechoslovakia in September. On November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazi regime unleashed a wave of violent anti-Jewish ... Kristallnacht , saw the arrest of thirty thousand Jewish men and boys who were released from concentration camps ... ” would mostly be Jewish children, the realities of the refugee crisis in Europe made this an obvious and ... . The leaders of American Jewish organizations rarely lobbied for the bill publicly, perhaps because
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29782. Who were the Victims?
World War II. Throughout the war, millions more Jews came under German control. Anti-Jewish policy ... evolved into mass murder, then systematic genocide. Not only German Jews, but all Jewish men, women, and ... referred to as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe.” Jews had lived throughout ... lands. For historic reasons, Jewish populations were more numerous in these areas. Jewish victims
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29783. War Refugee Board: Activities
between the State and Treasury departments about a World Jewish Congress rescue and relief proposal had ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Va'ad ha-Hatsala, and the World Jewish ... provided important intelligence information and were able to negotiate on the ground with Jewish ... Oswego, New York. Nearly 1,000 men, women, and children, the majority of them Jewish, came from Allied
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29784. The Medieval Era
slaughter committed by Christian mobs against Jews on the way linger long in Jewish memory. The Jews of ... Jews who immigrated because of persecution in Germany, coupled with a Polish desire for Jewish ... expertise in commerce. Autonomous systems of Jewish community government (the kahal) flourished in Poland ... deterioration of Jewish life set in during the long reign of Sigismund III (at the turn of the seventeenth
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29785. 500 Years of Antisemitic Propaganda
Anti-Jewish hatred has pervaded Western ... -Jewish propaganda from the Medieval to the modern era, created and distributed throughout Europe, Russia ... Holocaust survivor, amassed the collection to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in ... public] accepted the Hitlerian and even earlier persecutions and destruction of Jewish life.” Explore
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29786. Daan de Leeuw
Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2020). An article pertaining to his doctoral research, “Mapping Jewish Slave ... Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) Graduate Studies Fellowship, a Yad Vashem ... Leeuw will study the trajectories of Dutch Jewish slave laborers through German concentration and ... deportees to study the plight of Jewish slave laborers, to understand their agency and powerlessness, and to
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29787. Dr. Michael Berkowitz
Modern Jewish History at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. For his ... for his monographs in modern Jewish history including The Jewish Self-Image: American and British ... Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles (Valentine Mitchell, 2003). Dr. Berkowitz
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29788. Dr. Alexander Joskowicz
Professional Background Dr. Ari Joskowicz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt ... from his interest in the interplay between Jewish history and transnational minority politics since the ... Jewish politics and secularist polemics. His publications on that subject include The Modernity of Others ... Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014) and
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29789. Dr. Maggie Kirsh
ed. Ivan Jablonka (forthcoming); “Controlling the Narratives of Disaster and Recovery: Jewish ... Representations of the Child Survivor in Britain,” in Jewish Families, 1939-Present, ed. Joanna Michlic ... (forthcoming); and “Remembering the ‘Pain of Belonging’: Jewish Children Hidden as Catholics in World War II ... Their New Lives in Britain,” at the Fifteenth Annual Milton and Shirley Salasky Lecture in Jewish
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29790. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps
Jewish prisoners received the most brutal treatment in Nazi concentration camps. Identifying ... onto their prison uniforms, a perversion of the Jewish Star of David symbol. After 1939 and with some ... German name for their home country, which was sewn onto their badge. The two triangles forming the Jewish ... star badge would both be yellow unless the Jewish prisoner was included in one of the other prisoner
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29791. Andrei Codrescu
Jewish just was surrounded by silence. ALEISA FISHMAN: Andrei Codrescu is a poet, a novelist, and a ... ’t know anything about being Jewish or what that meant for quite some time. There was a silence around the ... idea of Jews, of Jewishness, partly because there were very few of us left in town. I think in my ... school there were five of us who were Jewish. We knew we had something in common, but what that was I
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29792. Flora Singer
antisemitism. Flora’s father owned a furniture workshop. Antwerp had an active Jewish community. There were ... butcher shops, bakeries, and stores that sold foods which were prepared according to Jewish dietary laws ... besides Yiddish! Every day after school I went to a Yiddish school where I learned about Jewish culture ... because I was Jewish. One day that winter we were forbidden to go to school. I took my sister and said
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29793. Ambassador Norman Eisen
a well-known, perhaps the most well-known, Jewish family in then Czechoslovakia, the Petscheks. And ... famous Jewish property as temporary residents, courtesy of the United States. But I could never get my ... wealthy Jewish family. The family had come to Prague as a result of fleeing a pogrom in the town of Kolin ... Jewish-built house that was occupied by the Nazis. So that’s fundamentally amazing, but at the same time
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29794. Floriane Hohenberg
the number of incidents targeting Jewish communities has doubled in 2014 compared to 2013. At the same ... time, in Hungary, you have no increase of the number of recorded incidents, but you have a Jewish ... perceptions of the Jewish community, I think, are equally worrying. It seems to me that one of the greatest ... descending from a Jewish family. And when I was, I think, 15 years old, it was a bit after the desecration of
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29795. Museum Condemns Attempts to Rehabilitate Hungarian Fascist Leader
Horthy, who was a vocal antisemite and complicit in the murder of the country’s Jewish population during ... 1944 the Hungarian Parliament passed 22 antisemitic laws. An additional 267 anti-Jewish ... marriage between Jews and Gentiles. The so-called “Second Jewish Law” of 1939 declared an official ... policy of forced Jewish emigration. Jews were excluded from service in the military, but were forced
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29796. A Student in a Nazi School
was born a few years before Hitler and his Nazi Party took control of Germany. At first, Jewish ... years before Hitler and his Nazi Party took control of Germany. At first, Jewish youngsters were still ... with a Jewish name. Man, according to his idea, was a combination of blood and flesh without a spirit ... accepted in public institutions in Germany. At the time of my graduation, a young Jewish Hebrew teacher
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29797. Susan Darvas
Susan Darvas was born Susan Lakatos on April 24, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary to an assimilated Jewish ... was regularly harassed because she was Jewish. It was not long before Jewish children were no longer ... allowed to go to school, and it became unsafe for Jewish children to play outside. By early 1944, many ... Jews in Budapest were ordered to evacuate their homes and relocate to designated Jewish houses. Susan
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29798. Democracy Shattered
state. Our lives were changed immediately. Cilia was thrown out of school because she was Jewish. And ... that was only the beginning. In a short time, Jewish professionals lost their jobs, and Jewish-owned ... were stationed in our town. This created a problem as they were not allowed to buy from a Jewish vendor ... would warn us. My two older brothers, like all Jewish men from 20 to 45 years old, were drafted
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29799. Deaf Victims of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust
people with disabilities—including non-Jewish deaf individuals—and societal prejudice about the perceived ... Histories Video interviews with Doris Fedrid Doris, a Polish Jewish deaf survivor who later became blind ... style="rightSideFeatureGallery"] Lilly, an Austrian Jewish survivor, discusses her childhood in Nazi ... a deaf Jewish married couple in Paris, and their daughter Esther. Rose and Esther survived the
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29800. Estelle Laughlin: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
intending to liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, were stunned by an armed uprising from Jewish fighters ... liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, but were stunned when faced with an armed uprising from Jewish ... eventually captured and deported. ESTELLE LAUGHLIN: The Jewish people began to organize themselves into ... the Jewish fighters were still fighting. It is really noteworthy that the Jewish resistance fighters