In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a scholar explains how digital technologies can help close knowledge gaps about the catastrophe that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
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Controversy around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela continues in death as it did in life.
Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in history, there’s limited quantitative data available. A new study investigates the number of deaths per day.
Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
A Chinese scientist has revealed he edited the DNA of twin girls born through in vitro fertilization. These girls are designed to be resistant to HIV. Is the edit a medical necessity or an enhancement?
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
We can learn a lot about our past from fictional stories. In ‘What is Left the Daughter,’ author Howard Norman presents a cautionary tale from the Second World War of xenophobia and prejudice.
The deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue filled people with sadness and fear. Transforming the grief into meaning is very difficult, a trauma psychologist writes, but ultimately healing.
A new book sheds light on the dramatic artistic and culinary life of artist Mirka Mora and her husband Georges.
Mass murders like the killings at a Pittsburgh synagogue are seen as the work of disturbed individuals. But America has allowed violence to become unexceptional, ignoring its root cause.
Charging the leader of the UK Labour Party with antisemitism is a narrative that went mainstream – but it’s one that omits pertinent information and opposing views.
An expert explains why the Jewish practice of abstaining from food on Yom Kippur is so out of step with the rest of Jewish tradition.
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. What happened then, and how we can keep to the promise – “never again”?
It is still unhelpful and hyperbolic to compare the Trump administration with the Nazi regime. But we must be aware of similarities, too.
The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as a stark reminder of the depravity of tearing children away from their parents and putting them in camps.
Foundational to the work of Holocaust educators and many teachers have been the survivors. Given there are fewer survivors who are alive today, how do educators inform future generations?
As Israel approaches the 70th anniversary of its establishment, many older American Jews will be celebrating. Many younger ones will wonder whether the Jewish state is something to celebrate at all.
Popes are not infallible, yet apologies are rare.
The very debate around how Labour has dealt with this issue revolves around some key tropes of anti-semitism.
Remembrance days and memorials provide people the opportunity to share stories with a community. An expert explains how that can make a difference.
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Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD in History, Durham University
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University
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Faculty, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College
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Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles