Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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Fast Forward Belgium’s railway should apologize but not pay for sending Jews to Nazi death camps, government panel concludes
One member of the commission, the son of Holocaust survivors, excoriated the conclusion
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Fast Forward Estonian university cuts ties with Israeli institution, drawing government rebuke
The rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts said the move was in line with “most art universities in Europe"
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Fast Forward What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage.
Bombardment, looting and disuse have wreaked an uncertain toll on the country’s former synagogues and Jewish sites
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Fast Forward Australia saw antisemitic incidents quadruple after Oct. 7, Jewish group reports
The country was home to a number of high-profile incidents, including a mass doxxing that resulted in a threat against a Jewish child
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Fast Forward Fearing Amsterdam-style violence, Paris police deploy en masse to France-Israel soccer match
Though Israel warned its citizens not to attend the game, 150 supporters of the national team will attend under police guard
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Fast Forward Jews are reeling from the Amsterdam attacks as unrest continues
Police are still struggling to contain the fallout from a clash they say they saw coming, and that has provoked debate in the Netherlands and beyond
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News Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity
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