Trump wants generals like Hitler’s. Does that make him a fascist?
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Despite complaints from anti-fascist groups, wine bottles featuring Adolf Hitler will remain on sale for the time being in the Italian city of Remini. Mayor Andrea Grassi said his hands were tied when it comes to regulating the products, The Times of Israel reported. The wine comes from Italian winemaker Vina Lunardelli’s cult “Historical Series”…
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Culture 65 Years Ago, The USSR Murdered Its Greatest Jewish Poets. What’s Left Of Their Legacy?
For nearly four decades, no one knew exactly how many Soviet Jews were secretly executed by the Soviet Union in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka Prison on August 12, 1952. A 1970 New York Times report on the fate of Yiddish in the USSR claimed the victims numbered around 30. A 1972 volume commemorating the…
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News Who Are The ‘Anti-Fascists’ Fighting the ‘Alt-Right’?
Protests against President Donald Trump brought a range of groups into the streets last week. Throngs of protestors wore pink “pussy hats” and chanted, “When they go low, we go high!” Others covered their faces, smashed windows and punched white nationalist Richard Spencer in the face. The more extreme actions are the work of anti-fascist…
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The Schmooze When Mikhoels Came to America
A longer version of this post appeared in Yiddish. Some weeks ago, on December 12, I was involved in a commemoration at YIVO of the 120th birthday anniversary of the great Yiddish actor and director Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels. I am not sure if Mikhoels is well known among the younger generation in Russia, or anywhere…
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The Schmooze The Night of the Murdered Poets
On August 12, over 100 people gathered at New York’s Center for Jewish History to mark the 58th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets, commemorating the Stalin-ordered execution of 13 prominent Soviet Jews, including five Yiddish writers. Among those murdered were novelist David Bergelson and poet Peretz Markish, who was awarded the Stalin…
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