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Tag: Central Europe

0 Antisemitism Communities

There are grounds for optimism in Slovakia – but we cannot turn a blind eye to surviving antisemitism

Jewish Chronicle · 18 Dec

The article reflects on a visit to Slovakia, highlighting both the preservation of Jewish heritage by non-Jewish Slovaks and the underlying antisemitism that still lingers.

0 Communities History

Jewish and Israeli volunteers join in relief effort as floods pound Central Europe

Shira Li Bartov in JTA · 19 Sep

In response to the catastrophic floods in Central Europe, particularly affecting Poland, Jewish and Israeli volunteers have joined relief efforts.

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The European Genizah

Simcha Emanuel in Tablet · 23 Dec 2022

The European Genizah refers to thousands of Hebrew manuscript pages that were torn out and repurposed as book bindings or covers for archival files.

0 History Politics

Banquo’s Ghost and the Fall of Hungarian Communism

Edward Serotta in Tablet · 23 Oct 2019

As Hungary commemorates the 30th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central Europe, the author reflects on their time in Budapest in the late 1980s.

0 History Antisemitism

Joseph the Righteous

Jonathan Karp in Jewish Review of Books · 18 Sep 2017

Joseph Sss Oppenheimer, a court Jew in 18th-century Germany, faced a tumultuous rise and fall that culminated in a trial and execution in 1737-1738.

0 Israel Politics

The birth of a Zionist myth

Tel Aviv Review · 25 Apr 2015

Dr. Ofer Nurdheimer Nur of Tel Aviv University discusses the origin of a significant Zionist myth surrounding the establishment of Upper Bitania in the 1920s by European immigrants with strong ideologies.