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Whether thousands of years ago or right now, fans have always created new stories based on familiar characters, weaving their own experiences into the tale.
Recent researchers, including myself, have highlighted one particular and obvious flaw in the Kindertransport scheme: that the children were separated from their parents.
The Holocaust is not just a memory in Israel. It’s part of how Israelis understand themselves and their country − and it’s playing a part in how the country responds to the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7.
10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
There have been 368 reported anti-Jewish incidents in Australia since the Gaza war began. But antisemitism has been a running theme in the country since the mid-1800s.
For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.
Two social scientists analyzed periodicals from US religious leaders in 1935 to determine what factors influenced groups’ sympathy, ambivalence or outrage about Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for their own victimization.
The history of comics is closely tied to the involvement of Jewish creators, who have had an enormous impact on the medium over the last 90 years.
Jewish communities have always followed some different customs in different parts of the world, but the 19th and 20th centuries brought much more dramatic divisions.
LGBTQ rights are not the main issue bringing Israeli protesters to the streets, but they do symbolize the country’s stark divide.
Shavuot, which was originally an ancient pilgrimage festival, has gone through many changes over the years – as has Judaism itself.
Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood.
Yom HaShoah, which falls on April 17-18, 2023, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s.
Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
Tu BiShvat has religious roots, but early Zionists embraced the day in new, more secular ways.
A German town needed to relocate a medieval graveyard to build a parking garage. A positive side effect: Scientists got to sequence the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews who lived more than 600 years ago.
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University
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James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
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Professor of German, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of History, SOPHI, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer in Sociology, Deakin University
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Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
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Professor of Sociology and Social Research, Deakin University
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Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Associate, Hebrew, Jewish and Biblical Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History, University of Warwick
