A Jewish librarian spied on New York Nazis in the 1930s February 10, 2021 12:56 pm From 1933 until about 1938, Florence Mendheim would travel to pro-Hitler meetings throughout New York City, sometimes at great personal risk. (Leo Baeck Institute/Florence Mendheim Collection of Anti-Semitic Propaganda)
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(New York Jewish Week via JTA) There is zero evidence that Florence Mendheim was the inspiration for Batgirl. But the real-life Jewish woman from the Bronx and the fictional daughter of Gotham City’s Commissioner Gordon were both librarians who led secret double lives fighting bad guys.
In Mendheim’s case, the villains were German-American Nazi sympathizers who met in taverns and beer gardens throughout New York City in the mid-1930s. The daughter of a German-Jewish family that still had close contact with relatives back in Berlin, Mendheim would end her day’s work at the New York Public Library branch in Manhattan’s Washington He
Marty Rochesterâs March 24 opinion piece, âOy vey: The excesses of identity politics,â cries out for rebuttal on a number of fronts. Since Iâm having trouble deciding whether I am, in Rochesterâs words, a âgarden-variety liberalâ or a âleft-wing extremist,â Iâll let other more astute readers…
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WHAT’S HAPPENING – February 9 – March 18
Politics & Identity among Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews
Joshua Shanes, PhD, associate professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies, College of Charleston, will discuss “A Growing Schism: Politics and Identity Among Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews,” on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The FREE webinar is sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program in collaboration with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies. Registration required at fairfield.edu/bennettprograms. For questions, contact the Bennett Center at bennettcenter@fairfield.edu or call (203) 254-4000 ext. 2066.
Jews & Civil Rights, and lessons learned
Professor Greenberg will share her reflections lessons learned form the history of Black-Jewish relations in the 20th century on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Recent discussions about white privilege and white supremacy have raised questions about where Jews of European descent fit
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