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A man moving into the Radom ghetto assisted by a Polish carter. (Courtesy Łukasz Biedka) Survivors visit the Radom Jewish cemetery in late summer or autumn of 1945. (Courtesy Barbara Fundowicz-Towarek) Open- air market on Wałowa Street in the Radom ghetto, between April 1941 and August 1942. (Courtesy Łukasz Biedka) Farmers market on Wałowa Street in the heart of the Jewish neighborhood before World War II. In the spring of 1941, the street became a main artery of the large Radom ghetto. (C...

The Wandering Jew Has Arrived by Albert Londres is a new translation by Helga Abraham of Le Juif errant est arrivé, first published in France in 1930. The text is a collection of twenty-seven articles by Londres originally published in the mass-circulation newspaper Le Petit Parisien. One of the great journalists of his time, of any time, Londres was born in 1884 and died in 1932 when the passenger ship taking him back to France, after carrying out a major and mysterious investigation in Ch...

Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian an...

This week in Jewish history | Israel sentences Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann to death 16 Dec 2020 share this on On 15 December 1961, Israel sentenced senior Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann to death for his role in orchestrating the Final Solution and the destruction of European Jewry. Eichmann was convicted on 15 counts, including crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish people.   Eichmann rose through the SS ranks to become lieutenant colonel and one of Hitle...

On this day, Dec. 15 ... 1791: The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, goes into effect following ratification by Virginia. Also on this day: 1890: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members are killed in Grand River, South Dakota, during a confrontation with Indian police. 1938: Groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial takes place in Washington, D.C. with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony. 1944: A single-engine plane c...

On This Day: MacArthur orders end to state Shintoism in Japan On Dec. 15, 1945, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered an end to state Shintoism in Japan, a key belief of which was that the emperor was a divine being. By (0) A Shinto priest performs the "Oharai" ritual for office workers during a ceremony at Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo on January 4, 2017. On December 15, 1945, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered an end to state Shintoism in Japan, a key belief of which was that the emperor was ...

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:33 UTC © GettyThe rule of law is a foundational principle of democratic society. It is a principle which ensures that all individuals and institutions are protected by the rule of law. This protection extends to private-property rights and the right of individuals to exercise the freedoms laid out in their nations constitution. The rule of law requires an independent judiciary and a clear separation of power between the courts and political institutions. In practice, howeve...

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks, the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO) A new documentary TV series for Israeli public broadcaster Kan will expose new information about Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of Nazi Germany’s Final Solution. “Eichmann — The Devil Speaks” is the first project to emerge from a partn...

Today in History for December 15th Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death; Bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel; The Bill of Rights takes effect; Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull killed; Walt Disney dies at age 65. (Dec. 15) AP

My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your helpDonate Anti-Semitism is a modern ideology that has drawn on images of Jews that were formed over centuries. This is well-documented in Christian societies. But today, anti-Semitism is much more prevalent in the Muslim world.  The Anti-Defamation League’s Global100, an index of anti-Semitic sentiment worldwide, has shown that the overwhelming majority in Muslim countries endorse anti-Semitic statements. The Pew Research Center has ...