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Holocaust

Helen Farkas, 97, with friends at family at her 97th birthday party.
Posted inMilestones

Holocaust survivor adds to legacy at early 100th birthday in S.F.

by Rob Gloster January 17, 2018January 23, 2018
Mexican Jewish artist Yishai Jusidman's "Prussian Blue" series of paintings about the Holocaust is on display at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through March 25.
Posted inCulture

In S.F. exhibit, Mexican artist tackles ‘the problem of painting the Holocaust’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 6, 2017December 5, 2017
YIVO announced last month the discovery of 170,000 Jewish documents that were thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. (Photo/JTA-Thos Robinson-Getty Images for YIVO)
Posted inUncategorized

5 amazing newly recovered Yiddish documents hidden during the Holocaust

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten November 16, 2017November 16, 2017
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
Posted inNews

100 years later: What was the role of Jews in the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz November 7, 2017March 19, 2018
Larry David at the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Season 9 premiere at the SVA Theater in New York, Sept. 27, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Jamie McCarthy-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Larry David’s Holocaust joke was an offense — against comedy

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 6, 2017March 23, 2018
Herschel (right, Richard Aiello) and Shmuel (Evan Sokol) in “The Unveiling” (Photo/A. Lerner)
Posted inCulture

Holocaust survivor haunted by his past in new play

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 4, 2017March 23, 2018
Roger Grunwald rehearses for “The Obligation.” (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inCulture

One man’s ‘Obligation’ to recount the painful truths of the Holocaust

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2017March 23, 2018
Debórah Eliezer in “(dis)Place[d]” (Photo/Ben Yalom)
Posted inCulture

One-woman play recalls dad’s life in Jewish Baghdad

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 1, 2017March 23, 2018
Sen. Bernie Sanders features in the season premiere of "Finding Your Roots," which airs on PBS, Oct. 3.
Posted inCulture

‘Finding Your Roots’: Bernie gets choked up about a relative who died defying Nazis

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman September 29, 2017March 23, 2018
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inNews

Belgian Holocaust denier sentenced to visit Nazi camps and write about it

by JTA September 26, 2017March 19, 2018

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