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Who did I depend on when telling the story of Israel— the place and the people—in this extraordinary year? Who stood invisibly behind me, whispering a fresh insight, an incisive analysis, an unforgettable story, while I taught on distance learning platforms? Each of the gifted men and women listed below, who were invaluable in my work of bringing Israel and the global Jewish people to the scores of classrooms we reached virtually in 2020. But there is another audience they impacted, an audi...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio Grenell told Breitbart that he attributed the rights groundswell across Europe to the “failed policies of the left,” adding: “I absolutely want to empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders.” He described himself as a big fan of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the head of the conservative People’s Party who shared power with the far-right Freedom Party in Vienna. Trump also appointed Martin Oliner, co-presi...

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...