Two Jews stand disconsolately among the ashes of wooden houses burnt to the ground in their Galician town in 1914, only brick chimney stacks left standing. A photograph that was probably taken in August or September during or shortly after what was known as the Battle of Galicia, which ended in a crushing Russian victory…
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Shtetl of honour
The new Museum of the History of Polish Jews will intensify the debate about how museums should think about depicting issues of national identity. From the 1600s until 1939 Poland was the global centre of the Jewish people, home to the world’s largest Jewish population and its greatest nexus of religious, cultural and political activity. Yet…
Massive photo archive of pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewish life made available to public
A vast U.S. archive of photographs of pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewish life is being made available to the public and researchers. The International Center of Photography in New York and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday announced the joint creation of a digital database to facilitate access to photographer Roman…
Simon Schama takes on a big topic: the history of the Jews – latimes.com
Simon Schama takes on a big topic: the history of the Jews – latimes.com Three thousand years covered in five hours of TV. British historian Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ heads to PBS. ‘What ties us together is a story,’ he says in the opening episode. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-simon-schama-history-jews-20140323,0,7695011.story#ixzz2wiU24ue7
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