Click Here to Listen To: Random Acts of History: Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is very different from what they’re supposed to on the This American Life website on April 27, 2018.
Photo: David Shankbone. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 – 09/15/1945) Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1942 and 1945. National Archives Archeological Site. Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: With Eternity in their Hearts: The story of young women at the outset of their lives who, when challenged by history, responded with remarkable courage. The Jewish “Couriers” who were real life “Wonder Women” Daniel Seaman on the Mida website on April 15, 2018.
Stroop Report – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Josephus on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: The Works of Flavius Josephus by William Whiston, Translator [1737]
Click Here to Read: The Life of Josephus on the Josephus.org website.
Click Here to Read: Josephus and Jesus By Paul L. Maier on the NAMB.net website.
Click Here to Read: The Ancient Jewish Historian Josephus on John the Baptizer, Jesus, and James on the James Tabor blog on February 21, 2017.
Josephus by William Whiston Continue reading Historian Tuesday: Josephus
Click Here To Read: The Buried, Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi: Sermons from the Years of Rage, 1939-1942, hidden during the war and now released in a new edition, is a rabbinic work unlike any since the destruction of the First Temple by James A. Diamond on the Mosaic website on April 5, 2018.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Photo: Jürgen Stroop. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
