A USC exhibit pairs Flavius Josephs, the first-century chronicler of a doomed Jewish revolt, with Lion Feuchtwanger, the 20th-century German-Jewish novelist who fled Nazi persecution.
“The Jewish refugees now had a possible path of escape, if only they could get across the water.”
The horrific siege and sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple is vividly commemorated every year on Tisha B’Av.
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
For those who are used to hearing McCarthyism thrown around as a generalized term of abuse, it may be worth looking back at the details of that time.
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like.
The Americans soon forgot the turmoil in the streets of Munich in the fall of 1923. The Jews of Munich did not.
In ancient times, Gaza was a key port city and a hub of religious diversity, with Jews and Christians once living in harmony under Muslim rule.
Jews were on both sides of the racist Wilmington Massacre of 1898, the only successful coup in United States history.
