Live Breaking News & Updates on Leonard Dinnerstein|Page 3
Stay updated with breaking news from Leonard dinnerstein. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Jewish Voices in Black History jewishjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jewishjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, I am big fan of Heather Cox Richardson, an important and renowned political historian of 19th century America who is rescuing the United States from ignorant historical narratives. If you’re not reading her daily “Letters From an American” you’re missing substantive commentary on domestic American politics. Nevertheless, like most western scholars of Western civilization and American history, Richardson inadvertently absents Judaism from the discussion. For example, during her Facebook lecture on the fifties’ red scare (she gives wonderful lectures at four on Facebook every Tuesday and Thursday), Richardson never mentioned that Jews were disproportionately targeted. I ....
Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. These early postwar attempts to comprehend the Jewish tragedy within prevailing cultural paradigms provided the foundation for subsequent understandings of that event.
Between the end of the war and the 1960s, as anyone who has lived ....