Antisemitism and the Holocaust – Page 7

South Africa Then and Now: Belligerent Nationalism, Ethnic Scapegoating and the Politics of Xenophobia

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(Author: Tony Leon, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016) In a recent essay, entitled ‘Fear’, published in The New York Review of Books, the prize-winning US novelist Marilynne Robinson accused certain extremist strands in contemporary American Christianity of being ‘unchristian’ in that they pedal

Milton Shain’s A Perfect Storm – Historical and Contemporary Angles

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(Author: David Saks, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016) In the 1930s and ‘40s, radical antisemitism in South Africa reached heights of virulence never before attained, and never to be equalled thereafter. In the introduction to his acclaimed new book, A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism

British Fascists and the Jews

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(Author: Gabriel A. Sivan, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016) Like many, I thought that organized antisemitism in the United Kingdom had its origin in Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) until a book by Colin Cross entitled The Fascists in Britain

Cape Town woman nominates Righteous Gentiles

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016) And so we must know these good people who helped Jews during the Holocaust. We must learn from them, and in gratitude and hope, we must remember them. (Elie Wiesel) On 21 July 2014,

The Farhud vs the Nakbah

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(Author: Zvi Gabay, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) During the holiday of Shavuot, Iraqi Jews commemorate the anniversary of the Farhud - the riots that took place on the Shavuot of 1-2 June 1941. In the riots, reminiscent of Kristallnacht in Germany, over

Searching for Oom Sal and Tante Regina

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(Author: Sybrandus Adema, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) “Regina Adema, ID I49344, dochter van Martinus Adema en Jikke Justina Blom, is geboren op 19 december 1902 te Bolsward, Nederland. Regina is overleden.” ( Regina Adema ID I49344, daughter of Martinus Adema and Jikke

“One World and one Human Race” – A Message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017

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(Author: Marlene Bethlehem, Vol. 72, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) It is an honour and a privilege to have been asked to address you today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We gather here in Germany, to witness, to remember, to ask what we can do

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part II)

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(Author: Don Krausz, Vol. 72, #3, Chanukah, 2017) I have carefully arranged all the fairly innocuous experiences of Westerbork together. We will now come to the real purpose of that camp, starting with a glimpse into the future. For several weeks I had the job

Routes to Roots

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(AUTHOR: Rosalie Rogow, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2017) When Gwynne Robins called me to discuss a request she had received from Dr Ines Wagemann, the archivist in Griesheim, Germany, to trace Rosalie Wolff, she was thrilled to learn that her search had borne

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part V)

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Don Krausz at the 2017 Yom Hashoah ceremony in Johannesburg, where he was keynote speaker. With him are SAJBD Gauteng Council chairman Shaun Zagnoev (left) and National Chairman Jeff Katz. Don Krausz is the subject of the youtube presentation ‘Don Krausz Holocaust Survivor 91

South Africa Then and Now: Belligerent Nationalism, Ethnic Scapegoating and the Politics of Xenophobia

Milton Shain’s A Perfect Storm – Historical and Contemporary Angles

British Fascists and the Jews

Cape Town woman nominates Righteous Gentiles

The Farhud vs the Nakbah

Searching for Oom Sal and Tante Regina

“One World and one Human Race” – A Message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part II)

Routes to Roots

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part V)

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