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Vilnius, The Jerusalem of Lithuania

12/19/2021, 1:30 pm

Vilnius at dusk

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Hidden Children of the Holocaust (For Girls Ages 11-14)

Up Next: 10/7/2021, 6:30 pm

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HBI Conversations Series With Carole Kessner, Ph.D.

12/15/2021, 12:30 pm

Carole Kessner, Ph.D.

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Jewish Genealogy Research Series

Up Next: 11/30/2021, 7:00 pm

(Photo: Imagesbybarbara/iStock)

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The Never Again Book Club: Fiction and Non-Fiction About the Holocaust

Up Next: 10/12/2021, 6:00 pm

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$100

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Genocide Education: How the Past Informs the Present and the Future

12/9/2021, 1:00 pm

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Lisa Gruenberg Discusses Her Book, “My City of Dreams,” With Laurel Braitman

12/7/2021, 1:00 pm

Lisa Gruenberg (Courtesy photo)

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Conversation With Journalist and Author Anne Sinclair

12/4/2021, 10:00 am

Anne-Sinclair

$12

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Plunder, Reparations and Restorative Justice

12/1/2021, 6:00 pm

Northeastern University, Boston

Menachem Kaiser

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The Yiddish of Yankeeland: The Jews of Boston and America, 1840–1924

Up Next: 11/2/2021, 4:00 pm

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REFERRAL: An early-19th-century reclining wheelchair. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9/6/2018 Top Pick

It’s Time for a National Museum of Disability

By The New York Times

Adolf Eichmann, so-called 'architect' of the Holocaust, in his prison cell during the time of his 1961 trial in Jerusalem (Public domain)

9/4/2018 Top Pick

In ‘Operation Finale,’ Eichmann’s Falsehoods are Validated

Opening this weekend, the film humanizes its notorious antagonist and allows his deceptions to go unchallenged.

By The Times of Israel

“Browsing Through Birke’s” (Courtesy photo)

8/30/2018 Top Pick

Moving and Funny Holocaust Film “Browsing Through Birke’s”

By Szifra Birke

High school students from the Tarnow Matzevot (volunteer camp) chalk and identify Jewish cemetery gravestones to make a catalogue available online to families around the world. (Courtesy photo)

8/28/2018 Top Pick

Remembering the Lost Souls of Tarnów, Poland

A remarkable collaboration between Polish citizens and American Jews to restore the Tarnów Jewish Cemetery galvanizes a world-wide diaspora of descendants and teaches the importance of memory and tolerance...

By Ellen Kornmehl

(Photo: Susie Davidson)

8/24/2018 Top Pick

A Swan at the Port of Rotterdam

At my first stop in Belgium, I expressed gratitude and said kaddish for my ancestors who fled from Russian soldiers there in 1920.

By Susie Davidson

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8/24/2018 Top Pick

Why Writing Anti-Semitism With a Dash Distorts Its Meaning

By The Times of Israel

(Photo: Reuben Atienza/Pexels)

8/23/2018 Top Pick

Vacationing in Nazi-Land

Julia Boyd’s “Travelers in the Third Reich” shows the extent to which reactions to the regime varied.

By The Boston Globe

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