admin | February 4, 2020
US Senator Bernie Sanders and US Senator Elizabeth Warren speak on the first night of the second 2020 Democratic US presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, US, July 30, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson. I view Bernie Sanders from the perspective of a historian knowledgeable about Jews and the American Left.
admin | February 4, 2020
The 26th annual Virginia Festival of the Book has added four new headlining programs to its schedule, bringing music, poetry and films to the interdisciplinary mix. A screening of the film Dark Waters, director Todd Haynes thriller about author Robert Bilotts 20-year legal struggle with DuPont to expose environmental contamination, will begin at 8 p.m
admin | February 4, 2020
File- Children place flowers at the Holocaust Memorial commemorating the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II, in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) THESSALONIKI The 14th annual David Tiano lecture, established in memory of an American consulate staff member who was executed by Nazi occupation powers in February 1942, was dedicated this year to the Jewish students of Thessaloniki and of the Holocaust, at an event held in the city on Monday
admin | February 4, 2020
AUTHOR READINGS PRESENTED BY THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN FEBRUARY The Seattle Public Library will feature writers and their work at several locations throughout Seattle in February.SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sarah Abrevaya Stein 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m
admin | February 4, 2020
Cuba confounded us.
admin | February 4, 2020
The plenum hall of the Israeli parliament on the opening of the 22nd Knesset in Jerusalem, Oct. 3, 2019. Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
admin | February 3, 2020
JANUARY 29, 2020 MOTIVATED BY the desire to think locally and write globally, Sarah Abrevaya Steins award-winning, lyrical scholarship has explored modern Jewish history in unexpected places and forms, from the turn-of-the-20th-century, boom-and-bust, global ostrich-feather market to the intimate, everyday fashion through which Mediterranean Jews contributed to the shaping of the modern world. Her commitment to research is matched by her love of teaching. She is a professor of history at UCLA, where she holds the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies and directs the Alan D.
admin | February 3, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Should we try to preserve Yiddish as a living language in America or Israel? A historic language used as a means of Jewish communication for hundreds of years and saturated with divrei Torah and yiras shamayim should be preserved. In addition, much Torah was written in Yiddish and will be lost if access to the language is lost
admin | January 26, 2020
The first Holocaust poems were written 90 years ago, when the full extent of the horror was yet to be known.
admin | January 26, 2020
The mosque they burned is in Beit Safafa, but Beit Safafa was swallowed by Jerusalem long ago.
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