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Jerry Klinger is the founding president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, which has placed monuments and plaques across the United States and in other countries detailing the history of Jewish individuals and communities.
By Jerry Klinger YBOR CITY, Florida — It’s a simple, small concrete gray hexagonal paver. The words Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, contracted for line count restrictions, are etched in a slightly off-centered recess. The paver is on the sidewalk, in front of the former Buchman store at 1910 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City,
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USA
By Jerry Klinger DALYAT AL CARMEL, Israel — On Sunday night, in the largest Druze city in Israel, Dalyat al Carmel, a first occurred. The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) donated a sculpture, the Flame of Friendship, to the community and all of Israel’s Druze citizens. The Druze of Israel, an ethnic Arab
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East
By Jerry Klinger LONDON — The simple blue and white rectangular historical plaque for Sir Arnold Wesker located at a Hackney (London) school evokes a familiar identity in London. The plaque, though different in design, is easily associated with the famous (and mostly circular) Blue and White Plaque program run by English Heritage found throughout
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By Jerry Klinger Bigotry, hate, antisemitism, and ignorance are not owned by any one group, nor by any one culture or nationality. There is a universality to it. Antisemites repeat, with vicious relish, the false canard that Galut Jews are disloyal, cowards. They never volunteer as soldiers, fight for their country, and if called to
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Frieda Salvendy moved to Malvern sometime after the end of the Second World War, and died here, in obscurity, in 1965. A short notice of her death was placed in the local paper and probate details gave her address in Alexandra Road. Beyond that, it would appear that very few, if any, knew of her existence, or that she had been an eminent European artist. [JASHP}
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
The first-ever recognition of the extraordinary accomplishments of Jewish American Julius Rosenwald in a historical U.S. Presidential setting, was placed recently. The interpretive panel is located in President Roosevelt’s “Little White House” Warm Springs, Georgia. [Jerry Klinger]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
The dead body of a British officer found floating in April 1943 in the waters off the coast of Southern Spain, near Huelva, may have been a key reason Hitler was unable to finish murdering the last Jews of Europe.
A valise, chained to the body’s wrist, contained top-secret military documents with plans to invade Greece by British and Allied forces. Nazi spies working with Spanish police copied the documents and sent them to Berlin. [Jerry Klinger]
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The National Park Service has agreed to a request from the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) to include mention of Adolph Sutro’s Jewish heritage on a marker at Sutro Heights Park in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, JASHP announced on Wednesday, Nov. 17. [SDJW]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
The San Francisco School Board voted 6-1 on January 29 to rename over 40 schools. The Board believes it inappropriate to have schools named for people who have been “engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings, oppressed women, committed acts that led to genocide or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” [Jerry Klinger]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Alaska is the land of the very long day and the land of the very long, longer, night. During the very long day temperatures can soar to 100 degrees. During the very long nights, temperatures can drop to 50 degrees below zero plus. Alaskan Jews wittily refer to
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History
Though the weather threatened, and Covid leered increasingly, menacingly about us, an Anne Frank Children’s Human Rights Memorial was dedicated in Antigua, Guatemala, September 3. [Jerry Klinger]
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By Jerry Klinger KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — At-risk to his own life, Roddie Edmonds saved approximately 200 Jewish POW G.I.s during the Holocaust. He is the only American G.I. honored by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations. East Tennessee is part of the Republican flyover country to the coastal elitists. Images of the Beverly
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USAAn email came a week ago from Australia. It was not a question so much as the sender wanted us to know about Tibor Herz. Tibor was the writer’s father. Tibor had passed away a few years earlier, quietly. For the most part, Tibor is forgotten by all except his family. [Jerry Klinger]
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The Hands of Choice, a memorial like none that has ever existed in Jewish history was installed last week in Safed, Israel. In over 3,500 years of Jewish history, no memorial has ever been created to honor Jews who chose to save Jews, even if it may have cost their own lives. [Jerry Klinger]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts