Tag Archives: Holocaust

(A Photograph) Muselmann (Henryk Ross)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by zjb

I was not aware that such a thing exists, but this seems to be a photograph of a “Muselmann.” The designation refers to those suffering hollowed out people, physically alive while pushed to the brink of psychic-spiritual death. Perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Rav Naftali Tzvi Weiss (Auschwitz Album)

Posted on May 2, 2019 by zjb

In America there’s no such thing as Holocaust Rememberance Day, but Twitter constitutes a country of its own. That is where I found this photograph of Rav Naftali Tzvi Weiss, Rosh Yeshiva in Bilke, and his students waiting for selection … Continue reading →

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(Anti-Zionism) Foroys Blog (Old School Jewish Socialism)

Posted on May 3, 2018 by zjb

An anti-Zionist friend recommended a post at this blogsite and I am recommending it, the Foroys Blog, to anyone and everyone, but especially to my comrades in modern Jewish Studies. The Foroys combines the memory of old school Jewish socialism and … Continue reading →

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(Satmar and the Holocaust) Sectarian and Visionary (Va’Yoel Moshe)

Posted on March 28, 2018 by zjb

Guiding undergraduates through an English language introduction to the Yoel Teitelebaum’s Va’Yoel Moshe presents something of a difficulty. What exactly is this thing? Does it reflect a mainstream of orthodox and ultra-orthodox thinking, or is it something of the outlier, … Continue reading →

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#ShoahLanzmannLiveTweet

Posted on February 1, 2018 by zjb

I think I can be proud of myself, or maybe not. Today in my class on the Holocaust and Judaism, a student, let’s call her “Jackie” asked how to make sense of Lanzmann’s Shoah. She was clearly disoriented by the … Continue reading →

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(On The Front Page) White House Holocaust Centers

Posted on April 12, 2017 by zjb

I’m posting this image, not because of what it says directly about either Spicer or Trump but because of the visual power of the layout and what it says about the Holocaust as a tabloid object, positioned here as a … Continue reading →

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On Not Teaching Night & Fog to University Students Who Don’t Have Time (For the Holocaust)

Posted on March 10, 2017 by zjb

Something very strange happened in my American Judaism class this past week. At the start of the semester in relation to I forget what I got into an argument with my students (a good natured one I’d like to think) … Continue reading →

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Holocaust Remembrance Day (George Segal)

Posted on January 27, 2017 by zjb

In general, not a huge fan of George Segal. But today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked by the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 27, 1945. It seems a good a day as any and ever to post … Continue reading →

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“Mayne khaveyrim” (elie wiesel)

Posted on July 7, 2016 by zjb

“One who says that he hears the footsteps of the Messiah hears only the steps of my old friends. Those who went into the pale night twenty years ago, and were engulfed in flames by the angels.” Elie Wiesel, “Mayne … Continue reading →

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(Not) Remembering Elie Wiesel

Posted on July 6, 2016 by zjb

About the late 1970s and early 1980s in Baltimore, I distinctly recall when it was I bought Hertzberg’s The Zionist Idea and the big A Treasury of Yiddish Stories. I remember quite clearly what it felt like reading the essays in Buber’s On … Continue reading →

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