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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 16, 2004
In the shtetl, a father with many children, all daughters, felt he had been blessed with good luck, when — at long last — his youngest daughter (di mizinke) had found a mate. Mark M. Warshawsky (who wrote the words and music for the famous “Oyf’n Pripitchuk,” or “By the Fireside”), captures the mood of…
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Stifled Discussion Dampens Student Advocacy Efforts
When Jeff Silver arrived at the University of North Carolina for his freshman year, Israel advocacy was at the top of his slate of extracurricular interests. His motivation, though, was quickly quashed after he attended the first few meetings of the Carolina Students for Israel and found participants unwilling to broach any criticism of the…
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Shira’s Bat Mitzvah
How proud Fran would have been right now, watching their daughter read the haftorah for… which Torah portion? Harry looks down at the open Hertz edition on his lap, reads “Shemini.” Fran would have known today’s Torah portion, he thinks. She knew them all. How she would have kvelled watching Shira up on the bima…
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Groups Question Own Inaction on African Killings
With the commemoration last week of the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, amid growing warnings of new atrocities in Sudan, human rights activists complain that the organized Jewish community has failed to act on its implied commitment to see that such tragedies “never again” be allowed to occur. Jewish organizations, with a…
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He’s Big in Japan
When musician Scott Jacoby heard that his first single, “I Like You,” had hit the airwaves in Japan, the Manhattanite was incredulous. So he sat down at his computer to find out if he was indeed a rising star in the Land of the Rising Sun. To his astonishment, Jacoby discovered — with the help…
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Newsdesk April 16, 2004
Hungary Uncovers Plot Hungarian police said Tuesday that they had detained a Hungarian citizen of Palestinian origin who planned to blow up a Jewish museum in Budapest, as well as two Syrian men suspected of links to the plot. But police said there was no connection between the arrests and the state visit by Israeli…
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President Bush Failed To Heed His Father’s Warnings
The gruesome events in Iraq on the day before April Fool’s Day are a painful confirmation of what the elder President Bush foretold would happen if Uncle Sam decided to go after Saddam Hussein and remove him from office. On March 31, four American civilians working for a security firm in Falluja, Iraq, were ambushed…
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A Female Odysseus Tells Her Story
This month, Mercury House publishes Zosia Goldberg’s memoir, “Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust,” as told to Hilton Obenzinger. The full introduction, by novelist Paul Auster, is printed here with permission. ‘I thought fast. I was lucky and got an idea.” These two short sentences come toward the end of “Running Through Fire,”…
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Notes From Underground
Journey Through the Inferno By Adam Boren Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 200 pages, $15.95. * * *| Yesterday: My Story By Hadassah Rosensaft United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 207 pages, $15.95. * * *| A principal value of Holocaust survivor memoirs is that they focus on the victim as subject rather than object. They…
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That Precarious Moment When Individual Memories Join the Collective Mind
Laura Brahm is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Aftermath of the Holocaust By Eva Hoffman PublicAffairs Books, 288 pages, $25. * * *| Several years ago, writer Eva Hoffman sat in a dreary New York restaurant with an elderly man she’d never met before. He’d sought her…
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Too Devoid of Light To Capture on Celluloid: The Holocaust in Film
Saul Austerlitz is a writer living in New York. Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust By Joshua Hirsch Temple University Press, 213 pages. ***| An astounding and astonishingly little-known fact: Of the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, and the additional slaughter of 4 million Communists, homosexuals, gypsies and others between the years…
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