(This story was updated on May 5, 2021, to correct John Treat s title and the course he teaches.)
On June 5, 1934, key members of Adolf Hitler s administration gathered in the German capital of Berlin to begin discussing what would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws two laws implemented the following year to suppress first Nazi Germany s Jewish, and soon also its Romani and Black, populations. One of them, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, forbade among other things marriage and extramarital intercourse between German citizens and Jews.
At the meeting, several Nazi bureaucrats cited the work of a young lawyer named Heinrich Krieger, newly returned from his year studying abroad in the United States at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. There, he researched how laws across the U.S. segregated and disenfranchised Native Americans, African Americans, and other non-white groups a legal model the Nazis looked to as a way to contro
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For the most part, history is based on facts, however, some aspects of history are debatable. A debate on historical occurrences usually rises when there is not sufficient evidence to offer an undisputable answer. One such debate is the death of Adolf Hitler, a German dictator, who is believed to either have commit suicide or have escaped to Argentina. Evidence strongly suggests that Hitler did not escape and that he committed suicide in his bunker using his pistol and cyanide pills.
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Postwar Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. (Courtesy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)
NEW YORK Not long ago, Sabina Brukner, the literary manager at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), was tasked with modernizing some old records. The NYTF, as we have kvelled about in the past, is the oldest consecutively producing theater company in the United States. When your files go back to 1915, there’s a lot of material. So the time was right for a spreadsheet listing every production the company had staged, all in one place. When Brukner completed the job, she noticed something: there were “few, if any” plays written by women.
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People take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in Trafalgar Square, London, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, US, this week (Photo credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via Jewish News)
A great deal of heat has been generated by the furore that in certain circles has greeted the recent publication of the report of the UK government’s Commission on Race & Ethnic Disparities. In the introductory remarks of its chair (black educationalist Dr Tony Sewell), the Commission’s conclusions are summarised as follows: