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Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, & Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg
Category : Editor's Picks
Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave […]
Read MoreThursday, November 11th, 2021
Israel welcomes individual tourists back into the country
Category : Travel Services
A watershed mark in the corona pandemic: As of November 1, individual tourists may enter Israel, under certain conditions. This is the moment so many travelers – and Israel’s tourism industry – have been waiting for since the pandemic shut out much of foreign travel through Ben-Gurion International Airport in March 2020. Effective November 1, […]
Read MoreSunday, November 7th, 2021
New non-stop flights to Madeira on Azores Airlines
Category : Travel Services
The Madeira Promotion Bureau is thrilled to announce new non-stop flights from New York (JFK) to the Madeira Islands (FNC) via SATA Azores through our partner Inovtravel, a Portugal-based tour operator and DMC offering the perfect opportunity for your clients to experience Madeira. This is the first non-stop flight ever from a major U.S. gateway […]
Read MoreMonday, November 1st, 2021
The Alfred Dreyfus Museum opens in France
Category : Blog
French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated near Paris what is believed to be the world’s first museum on the wrongful and antisemitic persecution of the late army captain Alfred Dreyfus. The new museum, inaugurated in the suburb of Médan, features at least 500 documents including photographs, court papers and personal objects from the 8-year ordeal […]
Read MoreThursday, October 28th, 2021
The Jewish camp of Compiègne-Royallieu, 1941-1943
Category : Featured Article
Built in 1913, Royallieu military barracks, which extended over 20 hectares, was transformed into an internment camp for 1944 to 1941 political prisoners Part of the former camp Royallieu (3 buildings on 24) was preserved to become the Memorial internment and deportation. About 50 000 people, men, and women (political prisoners, resistance fighters, Jews, foreigners) […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light
Category : Editor's Picks
“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s, Léonce Schwartz. What her tribute reveals is part memoir, part historical documentation of a lesser-known chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi’s mass arrest, in French the word […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Mireille Knoll, murdered Holocaust survivor, honored in Paris
Category : Editor's Picks
Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her Paris apartment in a horrific antisemitic attack in 2018, has been commemorated in the French capital with a street named in her honor. In a ceremony, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, inaugurated the “Allée Mireille Knoll” in the city’s 11th arrondissement, where Knoll resided, accompanied […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Stamps celebrate the lives of Portuguese who saved Jews during the Holocaust
Category : Latest Destination
Among the five Portuguese recalled in this special edition are some names already well known, such as Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who lost his position as Portuguese consul in France for having insisted, against the orders of the regime, on granting visas to Jews seeking to flee the country, and Father Joaquim Carreira, whose efforts […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Memory Map of Jewish Manchester
Category : Featured Article
This new digital resource takes the form of a freely available interactive website, which maps stories, histories, and recollections of the Jewish community who once lived in the Cheetham Hill, Strangeways, and Hightown areas of North Manchester. The Memory Map of Jewish Manchester aims to create a lasting document of the living memory of […]
Read MoreWednesday, October 20th, 2021
Rabbi Raphael Berdugo commemorated 200 years after his death
Category : Editor's Picks
A ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Raphael Berdugo, one of the eminent figures of Moroccan Judaism, was held in the old Jewish cemetery of Meknes. This ceremony took place on the sidelines of a symposium initiated, simultaneously in the Presidency in Israel, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the […]
Read MoreThursday, October 7th, 2021
