Holocaust
Role Reversals: A Palestinian in the Jewish Museum of Berlin on October 7 – With Dana El Kurd
This thought-provoking multimedia video adaptation of Dana El Kurd’s essay explores the legacies of violence and oppression, considering the costs of national security when it comes at the expense of others.
Memory, Forgetting and Catastrophe
Mahmoud Darwish and Avrom Sutzkever wrote sophisticated, modernist lyrical and prose poetry about the great 20th-century traumas of their peoples, the Nakba and the Holocaust, which they respectively survived. Their lives and the themes they explored in their poetry overlapped in extraordinary ways.
In Romania, Students See Parallels Between Today and the Pre-Holocaust Era
For high school students in Iasi, Romania, learning Jewish history has equipped them with skills to counter extreme narratives as the country struggles with the far-right winds that are sweeping across Europe.
Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves
On May 4, Amsterdam marked Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration of those who resisted the Nazi occupation, with special emphasis on the Jews who perished. Yet what kept intruding on me, perversely and inevitably, was Gaza.
Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust Comment Yields a Wider Learning Moment
Because many people’s lives depend on overcoming such persistent and deeply entrenched supremacist ideologies that are visible around the world, this moment to learn should not be(come) a wasted opportunity. Clarifying the connection between racialization and dehumanization and acknowledging different manifestations of such oppressive processes in more than one geographic context is essential to understand these intricate relationships.
Ukraine Embraces its Jewish Minority, and Reckons with its Traumatic History
Add it all up, and Ukraine’s Jews are witnessing an unprecedented embrace. “Jews are more accepted today in Ukraine than at any time in its history,” said David Fishman, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America who teaches in Kyiv and has written about Ukraine’s Jews.