By Vera Meyer MALDEN, Massachusetts — I became interested in German Jewish history and culture because these are my roots, this is my heritage. Both my parents came from Germany. Both their families were deeply assimilated into German culture; that is to say, they were proud to be Germans first and Jews second. The spirit
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-36th in a Series — Exit 11: Lake Murray/ 70th Street, San Diego ~ San Diego Institute for Sexual Medicine By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—One might wonder what led to Dr. Irwin Goldstein becoming the head of what is believed to be the first, and perhaps only, hospital-accredited sexual medicine practice in the United States.
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Scattered Among the Nations by Bryan Schwartz, Joy Sand and Sandy Carter; Weldon Owen publisher, Visual Anthropology Press, 251 pages, cover price $60. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m going to rearrange the sequence of Bryan Schwartz’s narrative and photography book so that we can always travel toward the east, almost around the world,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionPlan dropped to honor Hungarian anti-Semite BUDAPEST. Hungary (WJC) — Following an international outcry, plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honor of the late Bálint Homan, who drafted anti-Jewish laws prior and during World War II, were finally withdrawn. The City Council of Székesfehérvár voted against the proposal of the private Bálint Homan Foundation to
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International, Jewish HistoryUnlikely Soldier: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army by Georg Rauch, Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As a nineteen year old male living in Vienna during World War II, there was no way Georg Rauch could escape being conscripted into the Nazi military machine. At first he thought
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistorySwiss banks publish list of bank accounts that have been dormant for 60 years GENEVA (WJC) — Swiss banks on Wednesday published the names of more than 2,600 people whose bank accounts in Switzerland have lain dormant for more than 60 years, giving them or their heirs one last chance to claim their wealth before it reverts
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On May 29, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski with these words “As a young officer in the Polish Underground, Jan Karski was among the first to relay accounts of the Holocaust to the
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International, Jewish History, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Neil Folberg’s And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World, Aperture Book Publisher; 1st edition, September, 1995, is a very special treasure. Each of the almost two hundred large color photographs is an individual work of art about Judaism’s places of worship. Folberg brings expertise and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Kenneth Bandler ROME — Rabbi David Rosen, AJC (American Jewish Committee) International Director of Interreligious Affairs, welcomed a new Vatican document on Catholic-Jewish relations at a Vatican press conference today on the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. The document, “A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic-Jewish Relations,” was issued by the Pontifical Commission for
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International, Jewish HistoryLauder urges Hungary to defund statue of Nazi collaborator NEW YORK (WJC) — The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Ronald S. Lauder, called on Hungary to stop the unveiling of a statue in honor of a Horthy-era government minister funded in large part by a grant from the Hungarian government. The life-size bronze
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Jewish HistoryROSTOCK, Germany (WJC) — A 95-year-old German must stand trial for charges that he assisted in the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The court in the northern German city of Rostock decided that Hubert Z. is fit to stand trial, noting that the defendant can be
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By Ryan M. Greiss NEW YORK — The Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel has launched a Portuguese-language e-book called “Do You Have Jewish Roots?” offering a practical guide to uncovering one’s Jewish ancestry. The unprecedented 109-page guide is aimed at assisting the millions of people in Brazil, Portugal and elsewhere who may have a long-lost Jewish lineage.
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MADRID, Spain (WJC) — King Felipe VI on Monday thanked Jews of Spanish origin who were expelled from the country in the wake of the March 1492 edict by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. “Dear Sephardim, thank you for your loyalty,” the king told representatives of Sephardic Jews from different countries, during a ceremony at the Royal
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — It was 1944 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen and a young Dutch boy, Yoachim Yosef was nearing his 13th birthday. Among the inmates was the former Chief Rabbi of Holland who prepared the boy for his bar mitzvah. Each morning they would secretly study Torah on
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