At least twenty thousand Jews live in Poland. The two leading organizations, the Union of Jewish Communities and the Cultural and Social Association of Jews, each have about two thousand members. The subject of Jews and Poland involves three interrelated … [Read More]
Category Archives: Publications
Jewish education in the United States seems to be improving. Engaged Jews have increasing educational opportunities. With those not engaged, however, the community tends to lose ground. Sectors getting particular attention at present include early childhood education, day schools, informal … [Read More]
The conference on the Holocaust held in Tehran on 11-12 December 2006 was a further step in Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s genocidal strategy against Israel. His extreme hate propaganda had first drawn international attention in October 2005, a few months after … [Read More]
Italian Prejudices against Jews and Israel Figli di un dio locale: Giovani e differenze culturali in Italia. (Sons of a Local God: Youngsters and Cultural Differences in Italy), by Enzo Campelli, FrancoAngeli, 2004, 244 pp. [Italian] Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld … [Read More]
Ireland: A Country Hostile to Israel Ireland and the Palestine Question, 1948-2004, by Rory Miller, Irish Academic Press, 2005, 266 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld Ireland is a minor member of the European Union and draws little international attention. … [Read More]
An Author’s One-Liners Attack Holocaust Myths Using and Abusing the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer, Indiana University Press, 2006, 165 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld This book contains ten essays on various aspects of the Holocaust. To a large … [Read More]
“Death is a master from Germany.” This one sentence from Paul Celan’s famous poem “The Death Fugue” (“Todesfuge”) captures the essence of German culture since its beginning. In the twentieth century the thirst for blood of the legendary heroes from … [Read More]
Anti-Semitism’s core theme is that Jews embody absolute evil. It has been propagated intensely for many centuries. This extreme fallacy and its principal submotifs have remained largely the same over the ages. Their representation, however, has evolved according to circumstances. … [Read More]
Excessive tolerance for intolerance has been a major characteristic of the Netherlands in the past decades. A core element of this “pseudohumanism” is the emphasis on the needs and “human rights” of criminals, often at the expense of their victims. … [Read More]
The false accusation of Holocaust inversion-the portraying of Israel, Israelis, and Jews as Nazis-is a major distortion of history. This anti-Semitic concept claims that Israel behaves against the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II. “The … [Read More]