Compare and Contrast: Antisemitism in America vs. Antisemitism in Europe
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On April 6-8, 1903 — continuing on April 19-21 and later in October 1905 — vicious anti-Jewish attacks, which became known as the Kishinev Pogrom, took place in the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire. (The location is now Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.) At the time, the antisemitic murders, rapes, and destruction of property…
OOOOO French Jews were outraged in mid-October by the case of a man who spray painted more than 20 swastikas along the rue du Rovili in the heart of Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office refused to link the incident to antisemitism, claiming that because the vandalism did not specifically deface a historically “Jewish building,” the…
There are an untold number of tragic stories from the Holocaust — indeed, the entire horrific event was an unimaginable tragedy — but one story that has resonated for the past eight decades is the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis. In 1939, the German passenger liner carried more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing…
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Nicole Krauss, 45, is a novelist and short-story writer. Her novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), have been translated into 35 languages. Short-fiction works by Krauss have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Esquire magazines. Quote: “This is the pernicious…
Six-million Jews, almost all of them Ashkenazim, were murdered in the Holocaust. However, many non-Ashkenazim — both Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews — also suffered under the Nazi reign of terror and mass murder. Unfortunately, their stories have largely gone untold. This post is about Sephardi Jews during the Second Wold War; a future post will…
Click here for more NEWS >> New York magazine’s staff commentator and writer Johnathan Chait (47 or 48) recently penned a disquieting article (to say the least) titled “How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican Politics.” The article was published on Aug. 31 in New York’s “Intelligencer.” The quotation below from Chait’s piece sums…
Dr. Peter F. Hayes is an esteemed historian and recognized expert on the Holocaust. Dr. Hayes -– who is not Jewish — is chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has written or edited 10 books. In the video linked below, Dr. Hayes explains why and how the genocidal…
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Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed