Jewish History

Letters take readers inside the Holocaust

Every Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence From Poland edited by Christopher R. Browning, Richard S. Hollander and Nechama Tec;  Cambridge University Press; © 2014; ISBN 9781107-668768; 290 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Richard Hollander, one of the editors of this work, is the son of Joseph Hollander, […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

Major exhibition to focus on San Diego Jews

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A nine-month-long, 10,000 square foot exhibition about the Jews of San Diego, including the community’s history, achievements and troubles since 1850, is now in the design stage with an opening planned in March 2017 at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. Joellyn Zollman, a professor who

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

US museum wins legal fight over paintings seized by Nazis

Los Angeles (dpa) – Two Renaissance paintings seized by the Nazis during World War II will remain the property of a California museum after a US court Monday ruled against a claim by the family of the Jewish art dealer from whom they were taken. Judge John F Walter of the US District Court in

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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Goebbels’ wife had Jewish father, new document shows

The wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married

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International, Jewish History

Jewish trivia question: Touro Synagogue

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee for vice-president, recently visited the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Jeshuat Israel, the congregation that is housed in the Touro Synagogue building, was recently in the news as a result of its winning a lawsuit against Congregation Shearith Israel of New York

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Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Movie review: Natalie Portman makes directorial debut with ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’

LOS ANGELES — Actors gravitate toward passion projects, films they care deeply, even obsessively about, but the result is seldom as convincing as “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a film of beautiful melancholy written, directed by and starring Natalie Portman. A Hebrew-language film based on the celebrated memoir by Israeli novelist Amos Oz, “Love

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Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Elie Wiesel photo exhibit upcoming in Moscow

MOSCOW (Press Release)– Limmud FSU, in partnership with the Shem Olam Institute and the Nativ organization, will host a rare photographic survey of the life of Elie Wiesel, from Aug. 24 until the end of September at the Israeli Cultural Center in Moscow. An array of VIPs will participate the opening of the exhibition, including the

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Historic Torch from Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics to Be Auctioned in Maryland

CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md., Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — An official torch from the notorious 1936 Olympics held in Berlin will be offered for sale in Maryland on August 23-24 by Alexander Historical Auctions. The 10 ½” tall steel torch was designed by the firm of Walter E. Lemcke and made by the enormous German war

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International, Jewish History, Sports & Competitions

Czech foundation buys Schindler’s factory with plans for memorial

Bratislava (dpa) – A factory in the Czech Republic once used by Oskar Schindler, a business owner whose solidarity with Jews in World War II was the subject of an Oscar-winning film, could be made into a Holocaust memorial, the Novinky.cz news website reported on Monday. The site was bought by the Endowment Fund Memorial

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Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum isn’t about death. It’s about Jewish religious life.

One generation from now, it may be impossible to hear firsthand stories of the Holocaust. Seventy-one years after the end of World War II, there’s a growing urgency to preserve the stories of survivors. A new museum in Brooklyn is trying to do just that. But the Amud Aish Holocaust Museum and Memorial is a

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA