Molly Arost Staub
By Molly Arost Staub
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Culture Belgium Museum Will Tell Story of Red Star Line That Carried Jews to America
The story of Jewish immigration to America will soon be retold in Antwerp, Belgium. A museum dedicated to the Red Star Line, the shipping operation that carried more than 2 million people to the United States from 1873 to 1934 — many of them Jews — will open in Antwerp in September. Founded in Philadelphia…
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News The Frozen Chosen
In 1939, Harold Ickes, President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of the interior, proposed that four Alaskan locales play refuge to thousands of Europe’s fleeing Jews. Ickes’s idea -— which would become the premise for Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” — was later bucked by Roosevelt and by several prominent American Jewish organizations. But over the…
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