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Austria once denied its Nazi past. Now it sends young people abroad to confront it.
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (884+ words) At a Long Island nonprofit preserving the story of a Holocaust rescuer, Austrian volunteers are helping bring that history to new audiences. For decades after 1945, Austrians often emphasized their own victimhood under Nazi Germany. Only in the 1980s and "90s did they…...
13, 000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1772+ words) A trip bringing back Jews who left Poland during a government-sponsored antisemitic campaign exposed a dark open wound in the country's history. In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her university in Szczecin, Poland, and found a group of her classmates…...
The Jewish Brigade fought fascism in Italy. Now its flags spark protests.
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (326+ words) Made up largely of Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine, the Jewish Brigade has become a symbol in today's battles over Zionism, antisemitism and antifascism, writes a scholar of modern European history. When the Jewish Brigade appears today in Italian public…...
Rome's Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war 'genocide"
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (743+ words) Roma Pride has has become "itself an instrument of exclusion," said a board member for Keshet Italia. Organizers of Rome's annual Pride parade have barred Italy's only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organization from marching with a float at this year's June 20 parade,…...
A museum exhibit explores the Jewish fascination with the occult
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1175+ words) YIVO spotlights fortune-tellers, mind-readers and wonder rabbis, and the enduring appeal of the supernatural in moments of social anxiety. In a recent speech on nutrition, the nation's top health official offered a perhaps surprising explanation for what is ailing Americans....
'The Wanderers' tells the story of Poland's Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet Union
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (947+ words) Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Sibera. Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson's grandparents lived by the vow to "never forget,…...
AI Holocaust content is booming. Is it all 'slop' "or a solution for fading firsthand memory?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1340+ words) Educators, ethicists and Jewish leaders are debating the question as content mills slop on. Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It's unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait " there is only…...
Pro-Palestinian activists force Milan Jewish group out of parade marking end of WWII in Italy
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (641+ words) The mayor of Milan and the National Association Partisans of Italy said the Jewish Brigade had provoked tensions by bringing Israeli flags. Pro-Palestinian activists, some reportedly shouting antisemitic invective, forced Jewish groups out of a procession celebrating Italy's Liberation Day…...
Peter Beinart's "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza' wins PEN America award
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (484+ words) Progressive Jewish author Peter Beinart has won the 2026 PEN America Literary Award for nonfiction for his latest book, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning." Beinart, who has long been an outspoken critic of Israel, is the editor-at-large…...
Her Jewish grandfather's shame inspired a prize-winning novel
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (727+ words) Sasha Vasilyuk, author of "Your Presence Is Mandatory," will celebrate her Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature at a ceremony and live event in New York City." Sasha Vasilyuk was surprised to be named a finalist for the 2025 Sami Rohr…...