My mother survived the Holocaust — only to have antisemitism land on her doorstep here.
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — I never showed my mother, a Holocaust survivor, the letter a self-proclaimed member of “Nazi Lives Matter” taped to the “We Stand With Israel” sign on our front lawn in December. Nor the note that followed a few days later reading “Fight Colonialism, Imperialism, and All Domination. Free Palestine.” She was 81...
Yehuda Bauer, preeminent historian of the Holocaust, dies at 98
(JTA) — For his doctoral dissertation in history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yehuda Bauer focused on the British Mandate that before Israel’s independence controlled historic Palestine. In a conversation with Abba Kovner, the poet who had led the resistance to Nazi rule in the Vilna ghetto, the young historian said he knew there...
‘Humans of Judaism’ tells the Jewish story, from the shtetl to Sandy Koufax to Hasidic rapper Nissim Black
Nikki Schreiber, the “one woman shop” behind the Humans of Judaism Instagram page, had a Snapple fact for me. “Did you know this? That the founders of Snapple were three Jewish guys?” Schreiber asked. I didn’t, but for over a decade Schreiber’s page has been sharing stories and trivia about Jews from all walks of...
Yehuda Bauer, prominent Israeli Holocaust scholar, dies at 98
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem. He was 98. No specific cause of death was given by the Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust...