Posts Tagged ‘ modern jewish history ’

“Hang That Jew Or We’ll Hang You!”

May 1, 2013

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One of the most horrific episodes of anti-Semitism in American history – the lynching of Leo Frank – began 100 years ago last week. On April 27, 1913, a night watchman found the bloody body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in a factory basement in Atlanta. Police arrested the superintendent, a New York Jew named Leo Frank.…

Letters from the Dead

March 15, 2012

Imagine spying on letters written by other people–young lovers, long-separated families, runaway teenagers. Sounds vaguely intrusive…

It’s Hip to Be Square

March 14, 2012

Most people have a definite mental image of what matzah should look like: It’s evenly perforated, crunchy,…

Jewish Gangsters

December 30, 2011

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Holocaust Freaks

December 26, 2011

Young Holocaust survivors are the unexpected subject of the science fiction…

Bagel Fever

November 16, 2011

The bagel has long been a basic codifier of Askenazic Jewish identity.…

Buried, but Alive

November 8, 2011

There’s a saying among the Jews of Prague…

The Real Chelm

August 2, 2011

The town of Chelm has long existed in the…

Crowdsourcing the Holocaust

July 14, 2011

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel, has an unexpected…

Challah Makers’ Local 613

November 26, 2010

What’s with the Jewish ideal of wanting our…