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My family and friends questioned why I wanted to visit Israel. That’s why I wanted to go.

JL;DR SUMMARY Lucía Alonso, a non-Jewish journalism student, shares her experience of visiting Poland to study the Holocaust and its implications on current antisemitism, after her trip to Israel was postponed due to conflict. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustMedia RepresentationPolandCampus CultureDiscriminationJournalismStudent Experience

Places mentioned

Israel
"I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour of Israel."
New York City, New York, United States
"As a journalism student at New York University, of Spanish and Dominican heritage, I live in a city that is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel."
New York, United States
"3 Jewish students sue NYU, claiming the college failed to protect them from antisemitism."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Our group spent five days in Warsaw and Krakw, tracing a past we had only begun to understand."
Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Our group spent five days in Warsaw and Krakw, tracing a past we had only begun to understand."
Poland
"In total, 6 million Jews were killed, destroying roughly one-third of the worlds Jewish population."

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