Persecution is central to Jewish collective memory. So when armed police entered ultra-Orthodox areas of Jerusalem to close synagogues due to COVID-19, some residents reacted with fear and suspicion.
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The Never Again Education Act is meant to make Holocaust education more prominent in America’s schools. A scholar of Holocaust studies explains why that’s necessary.
Giving small gifts to children has become common around the world, though nowhere has Hanukkah reached the level of commercialisation that it has in the US.
The visa waiver scheme saved thousands of Jewish children from persecution – but at a huge cost.
The very debate around how Labour has dealt with this issue revolves around some key tropes of anti-semitism.
Criminalising suggestions that Poland was complicit in German atrocities during World War II denies history and will hinder scholarship.
Hanukkah was instituted in 164 B.C. to celebrate military victory, but the meaning has changed over time with the circumstances of the Jewish people.
In the late 1930s, Australia sought to restrict the flow of refugees, ruling that musicians were ‘unsuitable’ as migrants. Yet some talented Jewish musicians did arrive here and their work has enriched our cultural life.
Around 65,000 Jews lived in Krakow before the Second World War. Now, perhaps a hundred Jews regularly attend synagogue, and antisemitic figurines are sold in markets. What’s wrong with this picture?
Is ‘chutzpah’ actually – as Ted Cruz claimed – a New York word? And what’s with the candidate’s insistence on distancing himself from New York City?
Award-winning documentary film On the Banks of the Tigris explores the influence of Iraqi Jewish musicians in the cultural life of Iraq and paints a portrait of a country that was once a thriving multicultural centre.
The Israeli prime minister’s comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
The images of Bergen-Belsen have assumed a particularly special place in British official memory. Why?
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, the victims of the Holocaust stand, with a good reason, at the centre of our attention. It is survivors’ memoirs that shaped…
Eight hundred years ago, a monk named Thomas of Monmouth wrote a bogus account of the life of St. William, a Christian boy supposedly abducted by “the Jews” of Norwich. A boy – “like an innocent lamb…
The Spanish government has approved a draft law that grants citizenship to Jews whose ancestors were expelled over 500 years ago. This follows the approval of a similar law in Portugal last year. In 1492…
In nearly 40 years of teaching Jewish Studies at university the course I found hardest to deliver was my first-year “Introduction to Judaism”. It didn’t get any easier: the more I learned, the more I agonised…
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James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
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Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver
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Professor of German, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Faculty, Hartman Institute and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program, University of Washington
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kingston University
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Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Leicester
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Professor of Art History, California State University, Chico
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Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History, University of Warwick