admin | April 20, 2024
(JTA) A Holocaust research center founded by Steven Spielberg has gotten embroiled in a drama over campus Israel speech that is dividing the University of Southern California, where it is housed.
admin | April 20, 2024
The Variety Summit on Antisemitism comes at a time when the worlds oldest hatred is having a clear resurgence.
admin | April 20, 2024
The Shoah Memorial is taking part in the 22nd edition of Nuit Blanche this Saturday, June 1, 2024. On the program for this very special evening, free performances and discoveries..
admin | April 20, 2024
(April 18, 2024 / JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by the family of President Isaac Herzog. The Pesachim Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been in the familys possession for the last eight decades; it will be permanently displayed at the museum in Jerusalem.
admin | April 11, 2024
In Nazi Germany, the medical field was part of the larger effort to dehumanize anyone who did not conform to the idea of a healthy German nation. Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, who teaches the history of anatomy at Harvard Medical School, scrutinizes the biographies of medical professionals during the Nazi era and restores the histories of victims subjected to coercive medical experimentation both before and after death
admin | March 13, 2024
Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltels father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social democratic youth group, Tsukunft (The Future). She doesnt precisely remember the talk, but she does recall the energy in the room
admin | March 13, 2024
If you are a visitor of this website: Please try again in a few minutes.
admin | March 13, 2024
(March 6, 2024 / JNS) World Jewry is facing its most dangerous period since the end of the Holocaust nearly eight decades ago, the head of the University of Southern Californias Shoah Foundation said on Tuesday. The denial of the Holocaust and the attack of Oct. 7 are yet another version of antisemitic conspiracy theories which date back to ancient, centuries-old thinking blaming Jews for [ones] own suffering, USCSF executive director Robert J
admin | March 13, 2024
March 28, 2024 @ 11:00 am Very little has been recorded about same-sex desire and relationships in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, leaving us with questions about how queer relationships were viewed and what stories may have been erased. On March 28, Dr. Anna Hjkov, a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and pioneer of queer Holocaust history, will discuss why including queer narratives is crucial to developing a deeper understanding of Nazi persecution and societal resistance.
admin | March 13, 2024
(March 6, 2024 / JNS) A majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century, a report released on Monday shows. Twenty-four of 47 countries surveyed have made minimal to no progress in art and cultural property restitution, compared to only seven countries that have made major progress in the field
Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
