Tag Archives: Holocaust

(Poland) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photographs)

Posted on April 17, 2023 by zjb

These are 80 year-old photographic film prints being released by the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, as per this article here by Ofer Aderet at Ha’aretz. As per Aderet, whose language I am cribbing below, the … Continue reading →

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Stop American Nazis & Vote Democrat

Posted on October 26, 2022 by zjb

As reported here, this add by the Jewish Democratic Council of America minces no words about threats to democracy and the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. I’m posting an article here by Arno Rosenfeld who provides some backdrop to this ad. … Continue reading →

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Virtual Reality Of Holocaust Memory

Posted on April 28, 2022 by zjb

There is probably no way around that the future of Holocaust memory is going to be virtual. As explained here by Esther Zandberg, architecture critic at Ha’aretz, “The litany of new terms appearing in ads for virtual exhibitions at Holocaust … Continue reading →

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Moral Meaning and the Holocaust (James Loeffler)

Posted on April 27, 2022 by zjb

This piece here by James Loeffler on the one and the many and the Holocaust and comparative analysis is superbly nuanced. Of particular interst is Raphael Lemkin and the formulation of intenrational protocols defining genocide. While I do not necessarily … Continue reading →

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Jewish Socialism (Abba Kovner)

Posted on July 25, 2021 by zjb

Responding with gravitas to a recent online piece of petty Jewish politics, historian David Myers posted something online and there was this picture there of Abba Kovner and his partisan comrades. I went immediately to Dina Porat’s biography The Fall of … Continue reading →

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(Franz Marc) Fox (Holocaust)

Posted on May 3, 2021 by zjb

Thinking about Laura Levitt’s The Objects That Remain after seeing this news article here about the return of this lost property. It’s an amazing painting by German expressionist artist Franz Marc. The legal details are a little complicated and of … Continue reading →

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Online Holocaust Memorialization Platforms & Post-Holocaust Culture

Posted on January 27, 2021 by zjb

  Marking  the 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this article here at Haaretz by film, media scholars Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Tom Divon is about online Holocaust memorialization platforms and culture. With mainline memorialization institutions (museums and memorials) responding to the … Continue reading →

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(1948) Reconstructionist Machzor (Holocaust & Zionism)

Posted on September 21, 2020 by zjb

This 1948 Machzor is a neat little time capsule. Of particular interest is the names of authors and translators in the back of the text. Included below are the authors and translators to the Yom Kippur section (vol.2). Also in … Continue reading →

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(Modern Jewish Esotericism) Holocaust Parapsychology (Aaron Zeitlin)

Posted on April 30, 2020 by zjb

Of enormous interest to readers of the phenomenology of religion, literature and Yiddish literature, the Holocaust and postwar Jewish culture in Israel and the United States, trauma and memory studies, the occult and esotericism, psychology and philosophy is this extraordinary … Continue reading →

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State Power & Holocaust Memory (75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation)

Posted on January 27, 2020 by zjb

In reference to the large gathering of world leaders in Jerusalem at “World Holocaust Forum 2020” to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. These are pictures of pure power, state power, international state power brought to bear … Continue reading →

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