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In a scene from the play "Oslo," PLO Finance Minister Ahmed Qurie (J Paul Nicholas) speaks with Israeli Director-General of the Foreign Ministry Uri Savir (Paris Hunter Paul) while Norwegian mediators Terje Rød-Larsen (Mark Anderson Phillips) and Mona Juul (Erica Sullivan) look on. (Photo/Kevin Berne)
Posted inTheater

Tony-winning ‘Oslo’ explores personal risks taken for peace

by Patricia Corrigan October 3, 2018October 3, 2018
1928: Edgar Feuchtwanger as a child in Munich — where he literally lived across the street from Adolf Hitler
Posted inHistory

He lived across the street from Hitler, and he’s coming to Palo Alto

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 3, 2018October 3, 2018
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
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The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
"Otarci" from Leszek Sobocki's "March '68" series, 1968 (Courtesy of Polin Museum)
Posted inHistory

In Warsaw, the chilling tale of 1968 anti-Semitic purges

by Rob Gloster August 24, 2018
Temple Israel on Madison and Willow streets in Stockton, undated (Photo/Courtesy Western States Jewish History Association)
Posted inPhotography

Overflowing with photos of California’s oldest synagogues

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 16, 2018August 17, 2018
A 93-year-old witness spoke at the unveiling about being a teenager when the Nazis used Kroscienko as a mass grave. (Photo/Jesse Mintz-Roth)
Posted inBay Area

With new monument, Jews and Poles refuse to let the past fade away

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol August 16, 2018
19th Century Libyan Jews
Posted inNews

JIMENA and Israel ramp up Mizrachi and Sephardic oral history project

by J. Staff July 31, 2018August 7, 2018
Posted inCulture

Warsaw exhibit bares chilling tale of 1968 purges

by Rob Gloster July 22, 2018July 24, 2018
From the cover of "Nothing is Forgotten" by Peter Golden
Posted inOff the Shelf

Three books about characters connecting to secret Jewish pasts

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 11, 2018August 20, 2018
A bus stop ad in Warsaw for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photo/Shana Penn)
Posted inHistory

Daffodils replace yellow stars as Poland honors 75th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Shana Penn by Shana Penn May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

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