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Holocaust Survivor Fabian is feted by Germans

February 5, 2014

Editor’s Note: Holocaust Survivor Garry Fabian, on the invitation of several German Foundations, recently returned to his native Stuttgart and other German cities from Australia, where he took refuge after liberation from Theresienstadt. Fabian kept a journal on the trip, excerpts from which we reprint here. By Garry Fabian 21-22 January Departed Melbourne at 10.30pm […]

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International, Jewish History

Book Review: ‘Sasha and Emma’

January 30, 2014

Book: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich. Harvard University Press, 490 pages, 2012. By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — What is an anarchist? As we know, there are so many different types of Jews that it is safe to conclude that there

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European Parliament commemorates Holocaust

January 28, 2014

By Yifa Segal BRUSSELS – Three quarters of a century have passed, and very few Holocaust survivors are still with us, but the memory of the worst genocide in European history still lives on. “We have seen the danger in spreading false propaganda” said Martin Shultz, President of the European Parliament, “Even today we hear of

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Jewish History

MK dons a special tallit at Auschwitz

January 28, 2014

MK Uri Ariel recites the kaddish at Auschwitz (video via Knesset spokesperson) By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM –Before MK Uri Ariel, Minister of Construction and Housing, embarked on his trip to Poland together with some 60 Members of Knesset he received a special request – he was provided with a Tallit belonging to Shlomo Yom

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

January 26, 2014

ROME (Press Release)—AJC (American Jewish Committee) has called for increased vigilance following grotesque manifestations of anti-Semitism in Rome during the Jewish Sabbath on January 25. A box with a pig’s head was delivered to Rome’s Grand Synagogue on Friday and similar packages were delivered on Saturday to the Israeli Embassy and to the Museum of

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Jewish History

‘Camilla’s Purse’ new Shoah exhibit at Smithsonian

January 23, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open a new exhibition, “Camilla’s Purse,” Jan. 24 in the Albert Small Documents Gallery. The exhibition examines the life of Holocaust survivor, Camilla Gottlieb, through a display of letters, official documents and personal possessions. The records, collected and secured by Gottlieb in a

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Widowed by the Nazis, she agreed to again shelter Jews

January 19, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Yad Vashem has posthumously honored Maria Zurawska as Righteous Among the Nations from Poland. The medal and certificate of honor were accepted by her daughter Bronislawa Skoczylas who arrived from Poland to attend the ceremony. As told during the Jan. 16 ceremony, Zurawska’s story is one of self-sacrifice in the

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Jewish History

Tales of the Woodcutter: Simon Wiesenthal

January 14, 2014

By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who came to prominence after World War II as a Nazi hunter. With the aid of the Israeli, Austrian and West German governments he helped capture nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Lvov (in

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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Lauder: Bavarian bill on looted art ‘insufficient’

January 8, 2014

MUNICH (WJC) — The government of Bavaria, one of the 16 German states, announced on Tuesday that it would introduce a bill in the upper house of the German legislature aimed at facilitating the restitution of Nazi-looted art. If adopted, the new legislation would eliminate a 30-year statute of limitations in the German Civil Code

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, July 12, 1957, Part 3

January 1, 2014

San Diego Prepares for 8th National Shakespeare Festival at Old Globe Southwestern Jewish Press, July 12, 1957, Page 5 The San Diego 8th Annual National Shakespeare Festival is scheduled for the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park July 19 through September 1. Plays to be presented each night at 8 p.m. are “King Lear” and

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Water animals and the Jews

December 28, 2013

Female (top) and male ducks spotted at Poway Lake on Saturday, Dec. 28 By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California — On the periphery of a bunch of old coots, I saw a couple keeping more or less to themselves, clearly outsiders. On that Shabbat afternoon, Dec. 28, he wore what looked like a

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, The World We Share, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Biography of Lou Dunst tells of his three lives

December 27, 2013

My Bargain with God: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Lou Dunst, by Ben Kamin. Sunbelt Publishing, Inc., El Cajon, California, 2014. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — San Diegan Lou Dunst has had at least three lives. Family love gave Lou the foundation and core of who he is today. Growing up as the youngest

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Jewish History

After World War II, what became of the Bund?

December 23, 2013

The International Jewish Labor Bund After 1945 by Charles Slucki; Rutgers University Press 2012 By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia – An academic based here, Charles Slucki, notes in his recent book that the Jewish Labor Bund was one of the major political forces in early 20th Century Eastern Europe. But the decades after the Second

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International, Jewish History

JCC announces exhibit on Raoul Wallenberg

December 18, 2013

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The exhibition “To Me There’s No Other Choice” celebrates the life and honors the courageous deeds of Swedish diplomat and businessman Raoul Wallenberg. It will be on display from December 5, 2013 until February 28, 2014 along the second floor of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126

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Jewish History

Holocaust Survivor Fabian is feted by Germans

Book Review: ‘Sasha and Emma’

European Parliament commemorates Holocaust

MK dons a special tallit at Auschwitz

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

‘Camilla’s Purse’ new Shoah exhibit at Smithsonian

Widowed by the Nazis, she agreed to again shelter Jews

Tales of the Woodcutter: Simon Wiesenthal

Lauder: Bavarian bill on looted art ‘insufficient’

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, July 12, 1957, Part 3

Water animals and the Jews

Biography of Lou Dunst tells of his three lives

After World War II, what became of the Bund?

JCC announces exhibit on Raoul Wallenberg

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