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Articles by My Jewish Learning
Virtual Walking Tour: The Year of Remembrance of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Part 2
The second of two tours of the Warsaw Ghetto commemorates the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto ...
The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust
The 80th anniversary of the beginning of the momentous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is on April 19th this year. In this ...
Jeremy Kagan “Paints the Torah”
It is said that everyone should write a copy of the Torah during their lifetimes. Jeremy will share his versions. ...
Yom HaShoah Online Tour
A journey exploring the changing ways in which the Holocaust has been memorialised through analysing three monuments of Nathan Rapoport. ...
Disruptions & Difficulties: Survivors’ Postwar Lives: Yom Hashoah Presentation by Debórah Dwork
Where and to whom did Holocaust survivors belong? Throughout the Nazi era, Jews preserved the hope that their families would ...
Yom Hazikaron Event: Collective Memory Through Mount Herzl
Please join this CSP event commemorating Yom HaZikaron featuring Moki Schwartz on the topic of “Collective Memory Through Mount Herzl”. ...
“Maus Now”: Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel and the Present Tense
Art Spiegelman’s Maus remains as poignantly relevant today as it was when it was first published serially beginning in 1980, ...
The Blasphemer in Leviticus: A Marginal Figure
The Bible abounds with characters who transgress boundaries, for better and for worse; one of these characters who comes to ...