Many people who aren’t Jewish are responding as if what’s been taking place is just another episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But it’s different for many Jews.
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For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
It might seem odd but it’s not the first museum in a video game or metaverse.
The things that people are able to bring with them often take on a heightened significance, reflective of both their old and new lives.
Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for their own victimization.
Ilse Koch’s husband was commandant of Buchenwald, one of Germany’s first and largest concentration camps. As the only woman among 31 people indicted for crimes committed there, she became infamous.
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.
A new EU law would require thousands of multinational companies, including many based in the US, to look for signs of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
Scholars examine how state laws that restrict lessons on race could affect students and educators.
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history itself shows democracy suffers when people are uninformed.
Mark Raphael Baker is best known for two outstanding memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate, exploring his parents’ Holocaust experience, and Thirty Days, about the death of his first wife.
Weiss witnessed atrocities in Germany and South Africa and railed against them, becoming a towering figure as a writer and poet.
Recent studies on mass violence have turned the spotlight on the resilience of targeted individuals and communities.
Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s.
Comparisons to history risk glossing over the specific anti-Jewish hatred of the Holocaust.
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Gan Siyabonga is unique in Israel. It highlights a group that was both anti-apartheid and pro-Zionist.
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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