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Tag: Pogroms

0 Holocaust History

Four Days of Kristallnacht in Hessen

Stephen Denker in Lehrhaus · 8 Nov 2018

During the four days of Kristallnacht in 1938, violence erupted in small villages like Nentershausen in Hessen, Germany.

0 Politics History

Stephen Miller Denounced By His Uncle Over Immigration Policy, Family History

Forward · 14 Aug 2018

Stephen Miller, White House senior advisor, faces public condemnation from his uncle, David Glosser, through an op-ed in Politico.

0 Literature History

The Cross on Our Foreheads

Dara Horn in Tablet · 23 Jan 2018

"The Cross" by Lamed Shapiro is a powerful Yiddish story set in wide-open America, following a hobo whose life is marked by tragedy and violence from a brutal pogrom in Russia.

0 Culture Food

A Cookie Filled With Sweetness—and Family History

Joan Nathan in Tablet · 28 Aug 2017

This article recounts the special connection the author's mother, Pearl, had with her Aunt Eva's cookies, a family recipe passed down through generations.

0 History Antisemitism

The Wandering Reporter

Diane Cole in Jewish Review of Books · 28 Jun 2017

"The Wandering Jew Has Arrived" by Albert Londres is a reissued work shedding light on the French investigative journalist's 1929-1930 travels to Jewish communities in Europe and Palestine, highlighting the rise of anti-Semitism and his support for Zionism.

0 History Communities

Where To: America or Palestine? Simon Dubnov’s Memoir of Emigration Debates in Tsarist Russia

Simon Dubnov in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

Simon Dubnov, a prominent Jewish historian and public intellectual in Russia, explores the debates surrounding Jewish emigration from Russia in the late 19th century.

0 History Politics

Remembering the Hebron Riots, 1929

Forward · 20 Aug 2004

In 1929, a series of violent pogroms targeted Jews in British-ruled Palestine, resulting in the deaths of 83 Jews and injuring hundreds.