Nancy Sinkoff
By Nancy Sinkoff
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Yiddish World “My Child, You Are a Refugee”: 1942 poem achingly familiar today
The photographs of Ukrainian children clutching stuffed animals, peering through train windows, and tearfully hugging their fathers—who are also weeping—as they flee their war-torn homeland, are not only heartbreaking. For American Jews with long memories of the destruction of East European Jewish culture in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian lands, it also feels like a nauseating…
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Culture How did we forget Lucy Dawidowicz?
“The War Against the Jews,” that remarkably concise phrase denoting the immensity of the Holocaust, entered common parlance with the publication of Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s pioneering study, “The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945” in 1975. The book — which is still in print — is a popular history of both Nazi anti-Semitism and the Jewish…
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