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“It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; and it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch.”

Search “Koestler” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for Arthur Koestler’s 1944 “On Disbelieving Atrocities”
#HolocaustMemorialDay #NeverAgain

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“As days grow shorter, appetites seem to expand and we crave food—holiday food, familiar food—that connects us to people, places, and past times [...]”

Continue reading Deborah Dash Moore’s insight into the “recurring significance of food” at https://t.co/7IThx1dh3t

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What is the epitomic #Hanukkah poem? @JudaismUnbound (in ep. 356) stakes Emma Lazarus’ 1883 “The New Colossus” as THE ONE. Do you agree?

Search “Brazen” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 and let us know.

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“As days grow shorter, appetites seem to expand and we crave food—holiday food, familiar food—that connects us to people, places, and past times [...]”

Continue reading Deborah Dash Moore’s insight into the “recurring significance of food” at https://t.co/RVqqUtFrkJ

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“Most blessed of women be Jael,
Wife of Heber the Kenite,
Most blessed of women in tents.
He asked for water, she offered milk;
In a princely bowl she brought him curds.”

Search “Mizmor” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for the song of Deborah + other biblical songs (mizmorim)

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“Fill your hearts with faith and hope,
And aim the guns no more,
Sing a song of love and peace,
No requiem of war.”

Search “Shir” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for a translation of Yakov Rotblit’s iconic #Hebrew 1968 “Shir leshalom (A Song for Peace)”
#ThrowbackThursday

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“Poetry is not only feeling and perception but also, and perhaps primarily, the art of expressing feelings and perceptions adequately.”

Search “Poem” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for the 1919 manifesto of #Yiddish introspective poetry
#AskWhyWednesday

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Bravo to @Europeanaeu and @JewishHeritageN - I can’t wait to see how this project further develops !

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“The song, the witticism, the pointed jest—have accompanied the Jew in all times and places: when he went to work, when he stood in line for a bowl of soup [...]”

Search “Song” on https://t.co/sODKk71V0B for Shmerke Kaczerginski’s 1947 #HolocaustSurvivor #VilnaGhetto songbook

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Abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler was born #OnThisDay in 1928. She broke through the male-dominated upper echelons of the art world in the 1950s, largely through her creation of Color Field and “soak-staining.” https://t.co/MqJGK3pGP2

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“I did believe in you and sang your praises in each song of mine.
I loved you as one loves a woman, though she left and went.”

Search “Canto” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for two excerpts from Yitshak Katzenelson’s 1944 ”Song of the Murdered Jewish People”
#Holocaust

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Our #Ladino Quote of the Week is back! Every week we’ll share a phrase, saying, or proverb in Ladino to help you gain a little insight into our language and #Sephardic culture. Ayde (let’s go)!

[Michelle Margolis @hchesner]

So excited to share this!

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The only woman and one of 3 Jews in her medical program, Rosalyn Yalow became the first American born and trained woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science #ThisWeekInHistory in 1997. https://t.co/vueTFfKce8

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“I wept over France’s disasters at Waterloo […] but not […] the destruction of the Temple. […] It was Hitler, almost 40 years ago now, who revealed my ‘Jewishness’ to me.”

Search “Aron” on https://t.co/sODKk71V0B for Raymond Aron’s 1967 “De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews”

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“A feeling of aversion may be natural, but to follow it unreservedly indicates a low level of moral development.”

Search “Anti” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for Albert Einstein’s 1920 essay on the history and experiences of #antisemitism
#ThrowbackThursday

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"People’s talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen."

S.Y. Agnon in his backyard, October, 1966.

Agnon received the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10 of that year.

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“Why write about anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement [...] Because, very simply, it’s there.”

Search “Anti” on https://t.co/sODKk71V0B for Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s 1982 essay describing omission of Jewish women in “the oppressed”
#AskWhyWednesday

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“Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region”

Search “Wisse” on https://t.co/sODKk6Kk93 for an excerpt from Ruth R. Wisse’s 1992 “If I Am Not for Myself …”
#TeachingTuesday