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The Desert Experience is a highly interesting, varied and readable collection of articles on different aspects of recent history and society in Israel’s Negev desert. The book is divided into five parts with an explanatory with an engaging preface, written…
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Szymon Rudnicki is Professor at the Institute of History, Warsaw University and has long been interested in Polish-Jewish relations. A previous book, Jews in the parliament of the SecondPolishRepublic, won the Klio prize for the best monograph in Poland in…
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In a famous letter of 1838 to his friend John Forster, Charles Dickens wrote that “the Jew” (Fagin), who dominates a novel named after a far less interesting character than himself, is “such an out and outer that I don’t…
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Robert Wistrich has built a long and distinguished career studying the history of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe and the rise of antisemitism in the modern period. With the publication of his book, Antisemitism: the Longest Hatred in…
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The History of a Fateful Relationship Given the systematic violation of human rights in Iran, Ahmadinejad’s repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map and campaign of Holocaust denial, it is difficult to understand the long-lasting friendship between Germany and…
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On the opening page of Anthony Julius’s astonishingly thorough anatomy of anti-Semitism, Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President, who lived for some years in Manchester, is quoted as saying, ‘it is easy to be a Jew in England’. This was in…
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http://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/literatur/article6035106/Dann-schickte-Allah-Adolf-Hitler.html Nachdem die Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen im November 1947 für die Teilung Palästinas in einen jüdischen und arabischen Staat gestimmt hatte, klagten die palästinensischen Araber, dass man sie für die Sünden anderer “zahlen lasse”: Es seien die Nazis gewesen,…
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Erst seit einigen wenigen Jahren rückt das ungeheure Ausmaß der antisemitischen und antijüdischen Propaganda der arabischen Welt während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus ins allgemeine Bewusstsein. Während die diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten des Großmufti von Jerusalem, des erst 1974 verstorbenen arabischen…
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25589 One of our more inherently contradictory tasks as educators is to impress upon students the essential role of education in improving human society, as we simultaneously demonstrate that the worst perpetrators of crimes against humanity in history are often…
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574464023091024180.html # This much is known: In the mid-eighth century, the ruling elite of the Khazars, a Turkic tribe in Eurasia, converted to Judaism. Their impetus was political, not spiritual. By embracing Judaism, the Khazars were able to maintain their…
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