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Minarets no longer dot the skyline of the city once called 'Jerusalem of the Balkans', but for the determined bargain-hunter, Ottoman treasures can still be found
James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics Lea Ypi (London School of Economics and Political Science): "Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family's History" ABSTRACT: Professor Lea Ypi reads and discusses a chapter from her new book project which follows the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war Communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of dignity, individual and collective, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction...
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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 audience of one. Me. In a year when travel to Israel was all but impossible, their work sustained me on ...