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expressionist painting of a fox
Posted inWorld

Germany sets precedent in return of painting sold as owner fled Nazis

by Toby Axelrod and JTA May 4, 2021
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will review 12 artworks in its collection for possible links to Nazi looting. (Graphic/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inCulture

Investigation: San Francisco museums may hold Nazi-looted art

by Gabriel Greschler April 30, 2021May 7, 2021
Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.  (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Stanford begins work on massive digital archive of Nuremberg documents

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
A restored classroom in Pine Grove School in South Carolina's Richland County, one of the "Rosenwald schools" funded by the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to educate Black children in the segregated South. (Photo/Andrew Feiler)
Posted inHistory

One photographer’s mission to preserve the legacy of the Rosenwald schools

by Dave Schechter and JTA April 15, 2021
A group of young Bay Area Jews, many of whom were involved with a sit-in for Jewish education in 1972, pose as "chalutzim" at UC Berkeley in the '70s. Standing (from left): Elaine Schlackman, David De Nola, Marcie Lincoff, David Lichtenstein, Arnie Druck, Jack Morgenstein,
Buddy Timberg, Judy Timberg and Shaul Osadchy. Seated/kneeling (from left): David Biale, Jane Rubin, Miri Gold, Bradley Burston, Ken Bob and the Timbergs' dog.
Posted inHistory

‘We organized like a military operation’: Remembering a radical Jewish sit-in 50 years ago in S.F.

by Liz Harris April 8, 2021April 10, 2021
Three partisans in the Vilna ghetto, from left: Rozka Korczak, Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner.
Posted inLocal Voice

Yom HaShoah and the strength of our ‘Wonder Women’ 

by Yedida Kanfer April 6, 2021April 6, 2021
Hank Greenberg batting for the Detroit Tigers in 1935. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-The Sporting News Archives)
Posted inSports

Here is baseball’s all-star all-Jewish lineup of all time

by Peter Dreier and Forward March 31, 2021April 1, 2021
Mourners picketing after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. (Photo/Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives)
Posted inUncategorized

110 years later, the Triangle Factory Fire still has lessons to teach

Judy Baston by Judy Baston March 24, 2021March 25, 2021
"Jew street," as it is known locally, was once a hub for Judeo-Malayalam, the now endangered language spoken by the Jews of India's Cochin region. (Photo/JTA-Christabel Lobo)
Posted inHistory

The fight to save endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2021March 29, 2021
Arthur Roth in Europe during World War II.
Posted inHistory

I was face to face with evil at the Nuremberg Trials

Arthur Roth by Arthur Roth March 16, 2021

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