The 1966 publication of the first edition of “After Auschwitz” assured Richard L. Rubenstein’s place in Jewish theology.
Written 21 years after the liberation of the camps and 18 years after Israel’s creation, the issues raised in “After Auschwitz” were so remarkably simple, his points so basic, that they could not be ignored.
Rubenstein, who died in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 16 at age 97, argued that Jewish theology would have to respond to the twin revolutions of modern Jewish history: The Holocaust and the rise of the state of Israel. These two events had transformed the Jewish people demographically, physically, geographically, and psychologically.
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Khatchig Mouradian’s newly published book,
The Resistance Network, is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts, official documents, and missionary records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. He ultimately argues that, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration camps, and massacre sites in this region, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered unarmed resistance
Holocaust remembrance site in Terezin is crumbling
Under the Nazis, the entire town of Terezin was a Jewish ghetto that served as a transit camp during the Holocaust. Today, there is much to be done to keep the memory of the town alive.
Inside Dresden Barracks, the largest and most damaged building in the main Theresienstadt fortress
Jiri Hofman bought the gravedigger s house, right by the cemetery, for his young family. It is, he argued, a good house in an isolated location. The proximity to the dead does not bother him, he added they are omnipresent in Terezin (which the Germans once called Theresienstadt) anyway.
YU Hosts Book Launch of ‘The Rabbi of Buchenwald’ By Pearl Markovitz | May 06, 2021
Praising the new publication of “The Rabbi of Buchenwald: The Life and Times of Rabbi Herschel Schacter,” Yeshiva University President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman described the new volume as not only a history of American Jewry during the last seven decades of the 20th century, but a book of inspiration for future generations.”
The work was published with the support of the Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press and the Emil and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University.
Continuing the theme of the appropriateness of the volume being published by the Yeshiva University Press, Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University and son of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, recalled how his father would refer to YU as “our yeshiva.” Rabbi Herschel Schacter a
The G word genocide.
It s been swirling around in the news lately with President Joe Biden officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide as a genocide, over 100 years later.
Last year, I received a minor degree in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and my interest in the study has not diminished one bit.
Since the establishment of the word genocide post-World War II, one of the most widely overlooked genocides in the history of man is the Native American genocide, which arguably still continues today.
Genocide is not just mass killings or segregation. According to the United Nations Genocide Convention, it also includes a mental element: intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.