AFP: Gene study settles debate over origin of European Jews
Gene study settles debate over origin of European Jews (AFP) – Jan 16, 2013 PARIS — Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and created an empire that lasted half a millennium, according to a gene study.The investigation, its author says, should settle a debate that has been roiling for more than two centuries.Jews of
A Polish Historian’s Accounting of the Holocaust Divides His Countrymen
In the area of the former death camp at Treblinka, Polish militia members came upon people plundering jewelry from murdered Jews. Most academic historians labor in obscurity. But in Poland last year, a Princeton professor’s slim volume of Holocaust history became a controversial best seller. The publisher, Znak, saw its e-mail addresses bombarded, its business threatened with a boycott, and the ar
Before the Nazis: A Ukrainian City's Contested Past | Philippe Sands
Tucked away in the far western corner of present-day Ukraine, the city of Lviv defies expectations. Far smaller than Kiev, it was a closed city during the Soviet period from 1945 to 1991, and even today remains relatively little known. Yet in the early twentieth century, it was home to a roughly equal number of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews and as a result the city played a special and largely unrec
Jewish friend who influenced Pope John Paul dies
ROME (Reuters) - Jerzy Kluger, the Polish Jewish boyhood friend of the late Pope John Paul who had a major influence on the pontiff’s revolutionary relations with Jews, has died, friends said on Monday. Kluger, who was 92, died in a Rome hospital on new year’s eve of complications from bronchitis and was buried on Monday in Rome’s Jewish cemetery. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and
Diaspora Disneys | Shelley Salamensky
Hanukkah commemorates Jewish persistence against overwhelming odds, when oil lamps meant to last a single day stayed alight for eight. Five years ago, I heard of what seemed another miracle. Hanukkah commemorates persistence against overwhelming odds, when Jewish rebels in Judea defeated their Hellenic overlords and oil lamps meant to last a single day miraculously burned eight times as long. Five
World rabbis denounce edict forbidding Jews from renting homes to Arabs
More than 900 rabbis from around the world have signed a letter expressing "great shock and pain" at a ruling backed by scores of Israeli rabbis forbidding Jews from renting or selling property to non-Jews. The letter describes the ruling as a "painful distortion of our tradition" and a "desecration of God's name" and appeals to Israeli rabbis to "take a public stand and oppose those who misrepres
BBC News - Small steps for peace still forged in Mid-East
A school in the Middle East and a new book by a British children's writer share a common vision of peace based on a new generation of Arab and Jewish children growing up together as friends. At a demonstration I went to last week against evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem there were more Jews chanting and holding up banners in support of the Palestinians than there were A
‘What We Need to Know About the Holocaust’: An Exchange by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | The New York Review of Books
To the Editors: Timothy Snyder opens his discussion of my book [“What We Need to Know About the Holocaust,” NYR, September 30] with “Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, by contrast, in Worse Than War, takes the view that we already know all that we need to know about the Holocaust, and indeed about all of the other calamities of the twentieth century.” But on pages 88–89 of Worse Than War, after discussing th
Between Hitler and Stalin
In mid-April 1945 American GIs entered Buchenwald while their British compatriots marched, horrified, into Bergen-Belsen. There they found scenes of unimaginable suffering, men of bones and skin standing, somehow, on spindly legs, amid piles of emaciated corpses. In those dark days at Buchenwald, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower postponed the burial of the dead so that journalists could be brought to the sc
What We Need to Know About the Holocaust | Timothy Snyder
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