pogroms

What is a pogrom? Israeli mob attack has put a century-old word in the spotlight

By Joshua Shanes — March 14, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.

How should Jews think about Ukraine?

By Jeffrey Salkin — February 22, 2022
(RNS) — Like so much else in Jewish history, the story is one of light and darkness.

What the Polish president could have said about his country’s Holocaust complicity (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 23, 2015
(RNS) Who can deny that so many Poles were willing conspirators with the Nazis in the roundup of Jews and the wholesale destruction of European Jewish life?

COMMENTARY: Ukrainian order to register Jews may have a Westboro corollary

By Jeffrey Weiss — April 21, 2014
(RNS) What’s this got to do with Westboro, the church whose members are notorious for bringing their “God hates fags” signs to military funerals? Lots.
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