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Historian looks at Italian-Jewish efforts to fight Fascism

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In the lineup of 2 0th-century "bad guys," Adolf Hitler usually comes out on top, with Joseph Stalin running a close second. Behind them, Francisco Franco often appears and, farther down, Benito Mussolini. Now, with the publication...

Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl

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Thanks to the hard work of his literary admirers, an English translation of Grigory Kanovich’s autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song” has finally appeared. The novel was released by a boutique British publishing house, Noir Press,...

‘Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ Is the True Story of Hanukkah

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Part of the way through the holiday-season classic Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, I pause and ask myself, What do goblins have to do with anything in the first place? And while we’re at it, what do...

Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”

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JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm Admission: Free Lecture and Book Launch In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...

Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology, by Will Herberg

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The very title of this book arouses suspicion. The author, who claims to be writing a treatise on sociology, is far from being a professional sociologist. On top of this, he is an enthusiastic...