Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from Don Harrison’s presentation on June 22 at the San Diego History Center about the status of pioneer Jews in San Diego County. Other speakers included Joellyn Zollman, curator of the exhibit at the Center on the Jews of San Diego; Mary Ellen Stratthaus and Phil Shapiro, who both […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyLOS ANGELES (Press Release) — The Western States Jewish History Association has announced that Donald H. Harrison, editor and publisher of San Diego Jewish World, will also assume the position of editor of the quarterly journal Western States Jewish History, starting with Volume 50, Issue #1 – Fall 2017 Harrison has been a contributor to
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USAVienna (dpa) – Austria’s decision to seize Adolf Hitler’s birth house from its owner is at the centre of a Constitutional Court case that pits the right to private ownership against Austria’s historical duty to prevent neo-Nazi activities. On Thursday, the court in Vienna started hearing a complaint against the expropriation that was filed by
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International, Jewish HistoryPolice in Argentina found a treasure trove of Nazi relics in a hidden room in a house near Buenos Aires on Monday. The collection included a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside boxes with swastikas and even a ghastly medical device used to measure head size. The authorities believe this may be the
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International, Jewish HistoryOnce called the Flower of the Balkans, 74 years after the Nazis destroyed the great Sephardic community, the Greek city to begin construction of a fitting memorial By Gavin Rabinowitz When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the children of a Greek Jewish Holocaust survivor unveiled a plaque Thursday for the planned Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial Museum,
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International, Jewish HistoryPlans to rehabilitate a pre-war Jewish cemetery in the Czech town of Prostejov have run into fierce local opposition. The foundation behind the plan says it has been torpedoed by deliberate misinformation and anti-Semitism. Tomas Jelinek stands over a broken headstone and scrapes at patches of cement obscuring the name. Sweating heavily in spite of
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you think of a history researcher as someone who spends nearly every waking hour poring over old manuscripts, you haven’t met Joellyn Zollman, Ph.D She’s the curator of the “Celebrate San Diego! The history & Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community” exhibit which is being presented through
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Sandee Brawarsky J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson Nicholas Tolkien. Separated by three generations, one lived through war to create a magical world of fantasy, and one was blessed to know peace but writes about an unimaginably tragic chapter of history. Playwright and director Nicholas Tolkien, who makes his Off-Broadway debut this month with “ Terezin,” is
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhile the number of Orthodox Jews in the United States is on the rise, non-Orthodox American Jewry is in the midst of a steep demographic decline which, according to a new study, is only growing worse. The Jewish People Policy Institute, a Jerusalem-based think tank founded in 2002, released a new study earlier this week
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Off to a caterpillar’s start in its first decade, the worldwide Butterfly Project, which began in 2006 at the San Diego Jewish Academy, today in its 11th year has taken wing and is gathering momentum and supporters. Cheryl Rattner Price, who cofounded the project with former SDJA
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CountyNew findings at Amarna, the capital of an eccentric ‘monotheistic’ king, indicate a disposable juvenile labor force. Could there be a connection to the Hebrews? By Amanda Borschel-Dan While the archaeological record may not shore up the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt, in light of recent finds one could be forgiven for speculating
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ken Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Lichtblau, author of an exposé of the Nazi era’s shameful American aftermath, is worried what a future historian might say about today’s War on Terror. With James Risen, Eric Lichtblau won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for revealing
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Ken Stone, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Unbelievably, June 5 is the 50th anniversary of Israel’s lightning victory over the gathered Arab nations in the Six Day War of June 5-11, 1967. The Jewish state paid a heavy price to survive; the rest of us need to pay tribute. When we were children living there some
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