(Author: Mona Berman, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) On 26-8 October 2008, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University hosted an international conference to celebrate Elie Wiesel’s 80th birthday. Over three days the participants reviewed all the major areas of Wiesel’s life
(Authors: Paul Eidelberg, William E. Morrisey, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Last year marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the debates between the then-great American senator Stephen Douglas and an obscure Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. A single election campaign for one seat
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Feature image: Ullmann Statue, Ernest Ullmann Park (by kind permission of The Heritage Portal. See http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/life-iconic-artist-sculptor-and-designer-ernest-ullmann) “The contribution of the German immigrants was that they recognised the value of African art at a time
(Author: Mike Berger, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) I make no demands that others share this vision, though I know that it is widely shared, only that they desist from actively working for its demise. My ethnic identity must also share emotional and intellectual
(Author: Don Krausz, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Recently, I lost a close relative, an event that brought back memories of watching the demise of a woman in the Ravensbruck concentration camp (KZ). Ravensbruck, located some 80 km north of Berlin, was established
(Author: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) I wish to approach the matter of the delegitimisation of Israel in a slightly different way. Firstly, the metaphor of ‘a trial’ is an appropriate one to describe the structure of the delegitimisation project –
(Author: Leah Nasson, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” says Mirek, a character in Milan Kundera’s 1978 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He says this, Kundera writes, “to justify
(Author: Michal Singer, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) In 2011 the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (CTHC) introduced its Heritage Project, with the aim of creating new channels for research and preserving the memory of the victims of the Third Reich, along with other
(Author: Shirli Gilbert, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) The first time South African Jews commemorated the Holocaust, it didn’t yet have a name. In December 1942, barely a year since the first Nazi death camp had begun its grisly work at Chelmno, the
(Author: Hazel Frankel, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image: Pre-war bochrim of the Baranovitch Yeshiva Hazel Frankel is a Johannesburg-based novelist, poet and educator. She has recently completed a PhD on the South African Yiddish poet David Fram. Sarah Levine, née Polonetski, was