Tad Taube
By Tad Taube
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Opinion Polish Court Set To Rule On Holocaust Law. Criminalizing Speech Is Not The Way.
In a few weeks’ time, the Polish Constitutional Court will deliver its ruling on whether the anti-defamation law introduced earlier this year (which criminalizes any mischaracterization of Poland’s role in the Holocaust including use of the phrase “Polish death camps”) will be declared unconstitutional. Here in the Bay Area, I was heartened to speak recently…
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Opinion Arthur Szyk’s Anti-Fascist Imagery Deserves Another Look
Through the stroke of a brush, artists have the power to promote understanding and influence public opinion. In an age when images and text bombard us from every corner, we too often devalue the cultural and political importance of art and its ability to bring people together. As Americans sought to understand the rise of…
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Opinion Remembering How Polish Jews Lived, Not Just How They Died
In the summer of 1939, when I was 8 years old, a family friend brought me from Warsaw, Poland, to join my parents, who were in the United States on business. My parents had decided that it was no longer safe to return to the country where our family had lived for generations as members…
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Opinion March of Living Must Embrace Life
Each year in April, thousands of Jewish youngsters from Israel and the Diaspora make a pilgrimage to the sites of the Nazi death camps in Poland, to commemorate the millions murdered, to remember and never to forget. The March of the Living has become one of the most important international Jewish events, a practical implementation…
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