Blog Archives

The first-ever Farsi-language history book about the Holocaust comes out as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office (Tablet Magazine)

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The New York Magazine reports on a new study that finds that men who’d survived the Holocaust lived significantly longer than their peers who’d never been under Nazi oppression

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According to the United Nations, the Syrian civil war has created the world’s worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 (The Independent).

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James Loeffler of Tablet Magazine argues that the genre of “Holocaust music” – music by Jewish artists composed during the Nazi era – risks simplifying composers into shadows defined only by their status as victims.

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On a kibbutz south of Tel Aviv, medical marijuana helps soothe the physical and psychological pain of cancer patients and Holocaust survivors (Tablet Magazine).

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Plans for a Holocaust memorial containing the Star of David have stirred a debate over the separation of church and state in Ohio (Huffington Post).

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An Israeli immigrant travels the world to track down the paintings of his late uncle, Jechezkiel Kirszenbaum, whose work was looted by the Nazis and thought to be gone forever (Haaretz)

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A mass funeral of 409 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre is to be held in Potocari, in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BBC).

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A Facebook page – “Genocide of the Day” – sets out to educate Israelis that the Holocaust is not the only genocide (Haaretz).

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An Iranian Jewish leader criticizes outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. for his remarks hailing his denial over the extent of the Holocaust (Huffington Post)

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