Click Here to Read: Towards a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Fascism and Anti-Semitism: Perceptions From the 1940’s by David James Fisher (originally posted on the on the haGalil website on December 8, 2009).
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Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art
Click Here to Read: Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art: Jeremiah Lockwood sought to revive the early 20th century style of cantorial music; he found unexpected partners in the Brooklyn Hasidic community By Zach Golden on the Forward website on August 11, 2022.
The Weekly Reader from the Yiddish Book Center
The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would be a mistake to think of it as an unmitigated series of upheavals. To the contrary, the region gave rise to some of the greatest achievements of Jewish literature and culture, as the collections of the Yiddish Book Center bear witness. As exhibit A, you can listen to this program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem.
View our map of Yiddish writers who were born or lived or worked in Ukraine
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Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky
Click Here to Read: Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky Edited by
Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet.
Building of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw viewed from Karmelicka Street Image: Wojciech Kryński. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The high street that became the highway to hell: 70 years on, chilling then-and-now pictures of the town next to Auschwitz
Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis
Click Here to Read: Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis By Katie Hunt, on the CNN News website on July 14, 2022.
Longlin 1 partial skull (each bar = 1 cm) found in Longlin Cave in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China. Image Curnoe, D.; Xueping, J.; Herries, A. I. R.; Kanning, B.; Taçon, P. S. C.; Zhende, B.; Fink, D.; Yunsheng, Z Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
