ASHEVILLE, N.C. (JTA) — A granite obelisk at Pack Square in this city’s downtown has commanded attention for more than a century. It’s an iconic landmark, set in a spot where groups from evangelicals to Black Lives Matter protesters go to be heard. Dedicated in 1897, the 75-foot monument pays tribute to Zebulon Vance —…
Dragoljub “Draža” Mihailović collaborated with the Nazis yet, near the war's end, used his troops to rescue over 400 American airmen
Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
On Tel Aviv’s Frishman Beach stands a statue of Israel’s founding father, David Ben Gurion — on its head. Wearing only blue briefs branded ‘Tel Aviv’, Israel’s first prime minister performs a handstand in the sand in the iconic pose made famous in a photograph from 1955. This flippant tribute to Ben Gurion is the…
Monuments are not mere markers of history; they are instruments of memory. Whom we choose to memorialize says a great deal about who we are as a people. Addressing Amherst College in 1963, President John F. Kennedy said: “A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it…
As Confederate monuments tumble across the United States, it comes as no surprise that other longstanding monuments now face closer scrutiny. On Tuesday, a Jewish organization named Shurat Hadin called for the removal of statues to New Amsterdam’s disabled governor, Peter Stuyvesant, on the grounds that he was “an extreme racist who targeted Jews and…
Austria inaugurated a monument on Friday to thousands of its nationals who deserted Hitler’s army during World War Two, marking a new step in efforts to acknowledge the nation’s wartime past. Germany annexed Austria in 1938, making it part of Hitler’s Third Reich that wrought destruction across the continent and slaughtered millions of Jews in…
Under gray and rainy skies, without fanfare, history was made in Israel on Tuesday with the inauguration in Tel Aviv of the country’s first memorial to victims of the Nazis that commemorates not only their suffering as Jews. After Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney and San Francisco, Tel Aviv now has a memorial to the thousands of…
רחל פֿײגענבערג האָט געחלומט פֿון דער גרױסער שטאָט, אָבער אין אָדעס האָט זי געבענקט נאָך איר אַלטן שטעטל.
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