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The first two nights of Passover we had big Seders, which are festive dinners. Everyone wore their best clothes, and Mama cooked special traditional foods like chicken soup with matzo balls and potato…
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Johanna Hurwitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
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Hillel Halkin
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Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel
Date:
1976
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A simple searing truth emerges from the vast body of research and writing on the Holocaust. It is that European Jewry was ground to dust between the twin millstones of a murderous Nazi intent and a…
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Henry L. Feingold
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New York, United States of America
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1979
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When should Jews in one country start protesting about what they perceive as the peril of Jews in another country?
To answer the question, we must first analyze the specific conditions of the…
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Henry I. Sobel
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São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1982
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What can we do to ensure that Holocaust memory not only views male suffering but also recognizes women’s special and separate agony?
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Joan Miriam Ringelheim
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1984
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Change has been so rapid, in fact, that American Jews in their twenties and thirties inhabit a completely different world from that in which their parents grew up.
The essence of the change is that…
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Charles E. Silberman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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I really like it when it rains in the morning, before school, because then, there’s this atmosphere of winter. Outside, it’s cloudy and pretty dark, and in the classroom and hallways you suddenly…
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Gadi Taub
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992
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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
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Carol Matas
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Winnipeg, Canada
Date:
1993
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The shaving of hair has a startling effect. The absence of hair transforms individual women into like bodies. Indistinguishable. Age melts away. Other personal differences melt away. Facial…
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Livia Bitton-Jackson
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1997
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I went back to my letter. “Every Sunday there’s a chess tournament.” I stopped writing.
It was crazy. Mr. Doom was supposed to take care of all of us. Mr. Meltzer was supposed to take care of the…
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Gail Carson Levine
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1999