There are many relatively ‘new’ terminologies which cover events, which took place millennia ago. Some scholars claim that labeling them as such is anachronistic. This is a mistaken concept. There is more truth in saying that the appropriate semantics have … [Read More]
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Our distinguished honoree, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, was born in Austria. He survived the Second World War in the Netherlands. He was educated later in France and made his way to Israel. This life experience reflects the history which became … [Read More]
Few people know as much about today’s antisemitism as Manfred Gerstenfeld and write about it with the kind of insight and authority that he does. Given his experiences in Europe in his early years, first in his native Austria and then … [Read More]
Good evening, I am Hillel Neuer with UN Watch in Geneva. I am pleased to be delivering this message this evening both as a graduate and alumnus of CIJR and its student training program working on Dateline Middle East and … [Read More]
Good evening, Erev Tov to our dear friends up in Montreal Canada and as a loyal follower of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research it is a particular honor to be with you at least by way of a video … [Read More]
“The United Nations is singling out Israel and the Jewish people for differential and discriminatory treatment in the international arena. It purports to protect international human rights, but instead gives anti-Jewishness a protective cover.” Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian … [Read More]
After the war the French ignored the surviving Jews. They wanted to wipe out the recent past and start anew from a state of forgetfulness. The philosopher Jean Paul Sartre concludes this in his book Reflexions sur la question juive, … [Read More]
For Laurence Weinbaum, director of research at the Institute of the World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem, the notion of moral restitution is a misnomer vis-a-vis the reception of the surviving Jews in Poland after the Holocaust. “There were many instances of … [Read More]
After the fall of communism in 1989, the issue of Jewish property restitution in Eastern Europe gradually reemerged. Its main proponents were Polish and Czech Jews, but the subject was raised in Jewish organizations as well. As a result, in … [Read More]
The Small Shoah: Jews in Post-war Netherlands, by the political scientist Isaac Lipschits, was published in 2001 in Holland, where it became a bestseller. In its first chapter the author writes: “In the liberated Netherlands, the Jews were not endangered … [Read More]