Ofer Aderet (Haaretz)
By Ofer Aderet (Haaretz)
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News Fight Over Real-Life Schindler’s List Rages in Court
This story has all the elements necessary to transform a tedious court case about estates, inheritances and family feuds into a gripping historical novel. At its center is Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and bon vivant whom Yad Vashem named Righteous Among the Nations, a bankrupt man who brought Steven Spielberg his first Oscar as…
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Opinion The Nazi Commandments for Pure Aryan Society
Blind German schoolgirls learn about heredity. Photo by Courtesy “The Ten Commandments For Choosing a Spouse,” was written by the public health committee of the Reich and published in Germany in 1935. Beginning Tuesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it will be on display in Hebrew translation as part of the “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master…
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Fast Forward European Jews Fight Polish Kosher Slaughter Ban
Major European Jewish organizations have started to fight the ban on kosher slaughter in Poland, after the country’s parliament decided last week to leave intact the prohibition on killing animals for meat without first stunning them, which affects both Jewish and Muslim religious slaughter. The European Jewish Congress, the Polish Jewish community and the Conference…
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Fast Forward Did John F. Kennedy Admire Adolf Hitler?
John F. Kennedy admired Hitler as a young man and felt fascism was right for Germany, according to a new book in German that mines the future president’s diaries. According to Spiegel Online’s article on the book, the 20-year-old Kennedy pondered on August 3, 1937: What are the evils of fascism compared to communism? On…
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Fast Forward Composer Richard Wagner Turns 200, Still Dogged by Hatred in Beautiful Music
He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard Wagner. “Only Jesus, Napoleon and Hitler had more written about them,” said the German newspaper Die Welt’s culture affairs critic Manuel Brug…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Flock to Warsaw Museum on First Day
Hundreds of people, including many journalists and foreign tourists, waited in long lines and filled the square outside the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which opened Sautrday for the first time. The visitors weren’t disturbed by the fact that the $100 million museum’s permanent exhibition has not been installed yet; they came to…
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Fast Forward Portions of Dr. Mengele’s Journal To Be Auctioned Off
More than 4,000 pages of journal entries and other material written by Dr. Josef Mengele are to go under the hammer Thursday at an American auction house. Some 33 years after the Nazi war criminal known as “the angel of death of Auschwitz” drowned in South America, where he fled after World War II, 31…
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