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News Disenchanted Jewish Voters, Eli Valley’s Science Experiment
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Nathan Guttman to talk about their interviews with Jewish voters in swing states and the prevailing sense of disenchantment with the presidential election. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by with a few words for undecided voters. Finally, Eli Valley calls in to discuss his…
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News Memorial to ‘Forgotten’ Roma Holocaust Opens in Germany
Germany remembered the Holocaust’s forgotten victims on Wednesday by opening a memorial in the heart of Berlin to the half a million ethnic Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. As the mournful strains of a solo violin sounded through the trees, political leaders and frail survivors approached a dark pool close to the German…
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Breaking News Jews Say Action ‘Too Late’ on Holocaust-Denier
A rebel Catholic traditionalist group has expelled British-born Bishop Richard Williamson who deeply embarrassed the Vatican by denying the Holocaust shortly before he was readmitted to the Church three years ago. The World Jewish Congress (WJC) welcomed the step but said it was “too little, too late” to restore credibility to the Swiss-based Society of…
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Breaking News Romanian Lawmaker Denies Holocaust on TV
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a Romanian member of the European Parliament, denied the Holocaust on television, the country’s National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust said. The Bucharest-based Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania said in a statement issued Monday that Vadim Tudor, leader of the nationalist Greater Romania Party,…
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Breaking News Lithuania Agrees To Pay $47M for Jewish Property
Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis, chief of staff for Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, agreed to the transfer at a meeting last week with Gunther Saathoff, director of the German government’s EVZ Foundation for…
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Breaking News Auschwitz ‘Portraitist’ Dies at 95
Wilhelm Brasse, known as the “Portraitist of Auschwitz,” has died. Brasse died Tuesday in Zywiec, Poland. He was 95. At the Auschwitz death camp, he took pictures of prisoners and photos for the experiments of Josef Mengele and Eduard Wirths. He had been sent to Auschwitz for refusing to register with the Volksliste, which classified…
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News Henry Friedlander, Holocaust Scholar, Dies at 82
Holocaust scholar Henry Friedlander, a Berlin-born survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Ravensbrueck who went on to establish the significance of Hitler’s mass murder of the disabled as a precursor to the Shoah, died on October 17 in Maine after a protracted illness. He was 82. As with many survivors, Friedlander…
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Culture Hans Keilson’s First Novel Depicts Life Before Nazis
Life Goes On By Hans Keilson Translated by Damion Searls Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pages, $15 Two years ago, when Farrar, Straus and Giroux released translations of his novels “The Death of the Adversary” and “Comedy in a Minor Key,” centenarian Hans Keilson told Steven Erlanger of The New York Times that he would…
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