#reference#intifada The Palestinian Intifada -- December 9, 1987-December 8, 1988: A Record of Israeli Repression. 1989.
" ... how can a people whose statehood was claimed by reason of history's worst human calamity, the #Holocaust, engage in policies and practices which are reminiscent of what they suffered at the hands of others?" (p.ix)
Note on the word intifada (انتفاضة): “a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement” in contemporary Arabic.
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
“This passionate book delves deep into classical music’s responses to World War II, and the tragic intertwining of German and Jewish cultures. Eichler roves through history and language to express how music keeps cultural memory alive. Along the way, he paints an unforgettable portrait of an unspeakable time.” —Jeremy Denk, author of Every Good Boy Does Fine
Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer, Foley helped thousands of Jews to flee the country with visas and false passports, personally entering the camps to get Jews out, and sheltering those on the run from the Gestapo in his own apartment.
#CfP#histodons
The US #Military and the #Holocaust
International Research #Workshop, Center for Advanced #HolocaustStudies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (#USHMM), July 15–26, 2024
Co-Convenors: Kaete O’Connell (Yale University) and Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University)
Application deadline: February 2, 2024
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
#CfP for the "USHMM Faculty Seminar: #Jewish Responses to the #Holocaust: Dispossession, #Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home", which will take place at the United States Holocaust #Memorial Museum (#HolocaustMuseum) in Washington, DC on January 8-12, 2024.
🗓️Extended Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2023
Random talkback on Israeli news sites in response to current events.
This one in response to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attack in UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after his remark, in a speech to the UN Security Council, saying Hamas' attack did not happen in a vacuum.
“If our public face, advocacy and status rests on one sentence replete with historical truths and one sentence said by a redeemed female captive whose unhealthy husband and hundreds more are still held in Gaza - then we are the opposite of a wonderful nation. This is a weak, miserable, pathetic nation, managed by a gang of fascist garbage, that is more excited about volunteers feeding soldiers hamburgers than about human blood flowing like water with no hope.”
Zertal, Idith. "Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood" (2005)
A book talk with the author in which she reflects on some of the issues around the use of the #Holocaust in political discourse in Israel, and the insistence of some on seeing the victimizers as victims.
Raz Segal (associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University): #Israel must stop weaponising the #Holocaust
“A powerful state, with powerful allies and a powerful army, engaged in a retaliatory attack against stateless Palestinians under Israeli-settler colonial rule, military occupation and siege, is thus portrayed as powerless Jews in a struggle against Nazis.”
“More and more Holocaust and genocide studies scholars are refusing to allow the continuation of the dangerous use of the Holocaust to distort the historical reality of the Holocaust and Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.“
Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
"Palestinian human rights organisations, Jewish civil society groups, #Holocaust and #genocide studies scholars and others have by now warned of an imminent genocide against the Palestinian population in #Gaza. We emphasise the existence of a serious risk of genocide being committed in the Gaza Strip."
7 October 1944 | Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando at the German Nazi camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau organized a revolt. They set crematorium IV on fire, causing serious damage, as well as attacked the SS men in the vicinity. 1/5
PHILADELPHIA’S MÜTTER MUSEUM IS REVIEWING ITS COLLECTION OF HUMAN REMAINS. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS FOR DISABILITY REPRESENTATION by Riva Lehrer (Art in America, 2023).
"The Mütter joins medical and natural history museums around the world who are debating the ethical treatment of human remains. There is the question of provenance: at the Mütter, some specimens may have been accepted into the collection under dubious or outright unethical circumstances. Mütter curator Anna Dhoty has written about one unclear holding. Other provenance issues have recently been resolved after decades of negotiation. And in some instances, there is virtually no paper trail at all.
All this gets at a deeper, more troubling question: can it ever be ethical to own, or exhibit, someone else’s body? And if so, how should those bodies be displayed?"
THE CARE/REPATRIATION OF HUMAN REMAINS HELD IN MUSEUMS.
As @ricketson points out, this is a problem that has been tirelessly debated for many years. And it is a multifaceted problem. Some examples (there are, of course, many more):
Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
#Lithuanian filmmaker Saulius Beržinis is target of a campaign to ban his latest documentary on #Holocaust in #Šeduva. B'nai B'rith has issued this press release in his defense.
On 2 August, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance. In memory of all 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe.
"Wir wissen nichts und ahnen alles. Das ist der Tod! Nicht der schnell erlösende, sondern der quälende, langsame, der uns jeden Tag ein Stückchen sterben lassen wird " So beschreibt Edith Blau im Mai 1945 ihre Vorahnung, als sie 1944 aus Riga, wohin sie Ende 1941 deportiert worden war, in das KZ Stutthof verschleppt wurde.
Ihr Bericht spielt eine wichtige Rolle in meinem Buch über "nach Osten" verschleppte deutsche Jüdinnen und Juden, das im nächsten Frühjahr erscheint.