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“As time went on … the Nazis not only became the source of power and wealth and the seekers after Germany’s greatness, but also learned how to handle footnotes and quotations…Hitler was aware of the necessity of presenting anti-Jewish ideology…
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I was a child, not quite ten, rummaging through a bookcase in my grandparents’ house when I came across Martyrs and Fighters. It was on the cover of that dog-eared 1962 paperback, its faded pages brittle to the touch, that…
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Except for its preface and afterword, this book consists of the texts of lectures in a ten-year series initiated by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996, Archbishop of Chicago 1982-1996). In 1995, after years of joint…
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Imagine this: It’s the summer of 1947 and you’re a Communist or a fellow traveler or a Socialist or another kind of anti-Stalinist. Despite myriad differences with political rivals, you share the same basic position on the question of Palestine.…
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What a day in history it was, that Saturday, June 10, 1967. It was a frightful scene, as if the mob would break into the courtyard at any moment and the embassy itself. It lasted for hours, wrote Yosef Govrin,…
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In the middle of the public debate on the renewed round of Holocaust restitution in the Netherlands, one of the leading Dutch newspapers, NRC Handelsblad, remarked that the government had opened a Pandora’s Box. The various official commissions which had…
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The period of the Second Temple (538 BCE-70 CE) constitutes one of the most exciting epochs in the history of the Jews and of Judaism. Among its major events are: a partial return of Jews to Jerusalem from Babylonia under…
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Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multiparty Period covers the history of the Jewish Communities in Turkey from 1950 to the recent past. It is the third volume of the trilogy written by Rifat Bali,…
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A bitter consensus that has remained for decades in Israeli public discourse is that “the Israeli national image is a disaster”. As the role of the media and public diplomacy gains critical significance in today’s conflicts, the use of Psychological…
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Among the small community of scholars that deal with the history of Iranian Jews, Houman Sarshar has a well known and respected name. In addition to his significant contribution to the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History (CIJOH), Sarshar also…
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