Jewish culture high and low. A short daily email featuring historical outtakes, new and forgotten films, books, oddities, & more. A project of @70FacesMedia.
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In 1936, with Nazi Germany set to host the Summer Olympics, anti-fascist organizers in Barcelona decided to stage a parallel event: the People’s Olympiad.
https://t.co/gqIp1hnh9y
via @jewniverse
I already had Jewish-refugees-in-Brazil on the brain, thanks to @Georgia_Hunter's presentation yesterday, which prompted me to buy her book. (My own great-grandparents fled to Rio, too, in 1940.) And now, there's this, from @Jewniverse/@z_solomon: https://t.co/cozjmq2y0D #JewLit
From the @jewniverse article: "Tucked away in a brownstone in the Brooklyn shtetl of Borough Park is a family-friendly attraction of almost Biblical proportions: Torah Animal World, or the 'spiritual taxidermy center' of New York City." -- https://t.co/RrIdMzE5eu