Political Conditions
Tags: ISRAEL -- Politics & government; HOLOCAUST, Jewish (1939-1945)
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- WHEN DOES CRITICISM OF ISRAEL BECOME ANTI-SEMITIC? Rosenbaum, S. Norman; Briemberg, Mordecai // Canadian Dimension;Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p2
Focuses on the criticism of the state policy in Israel. Rejection of state policies merging into antisemitism; Discussion on the merging of antisemitism into the Holocaust; Importance of imperialist interests in explaining U.S. support of Israeli imperialism.
- Commemoration on the cheap. Bar-Hillel, Mira // New Statesman;5/25/2009, Vol. 138 Issue 4950, p32
The article reports on a plan to compensate Israeli victims of the World War Two Holocaust. The author is critical of the plan, claiming that the measure is ineffective and lacking in official government support. The plight of Holocaust survivors is contrasted unfavorably with museums and other...
- The Reform Rabbinate and Israel. Haberman, Joshua O. // Judaism;Summer84, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p282
Presents a program of action for Reform Judaism in the Israeli State. Reaffirmation of Jewish peoplehood in the Columbus Platform of 1937; Recognition of the Israeli State by Reform Judaism; Impact of the Jewish Holocaust on Jewish aspirations for universalism.
- Against all odds. Twair, Pat McDonnell // Middle East;Apr2007, Issue 377, p62
The article narrates the struggle of Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor, for the cause of Palestine. She was born on August 15, 1925 in a Jew family in Germany. She was sent to England in 1939, by her parents. She gained knowledge of the atrocities that Nazis committed on Jews. She is against...
- A Forgotten Forerunner: Zelda Popkin's Novels of the Holocaust and the 1948 War. Popkin, Jeremy D. // Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies;Fall2001, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p36
Explores the life and works of Jewish writer Zelda Popkin in the United States. Composition of one the earliest English novels with a Holocaust theme; First depiction of the Israeli war for independence from Popkin; Description of the literary style of Popkin.
- Deep in the Basement: Israel's Harmonious Nuclear Ambiguity. Karpin, Michael // World Policy Journal;Fall2009, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p31
The article discusses the nuclear weapons capability of Israel, and the national consensus against ever discussing the country's nuclear program publicly. The history of the Israeli nuclear program is traced from the country's founding in 1948, and seen as a manifestation of Jewish fears of...
- Distant witnessing. LISS, ANDREA // Afterimage;Sep/Oct98, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p3
Opinion. Examines the implications of the forms of remembrance of the Jewish Holocaust, which occurred between 1939-1945, through photographic representation. How such photographs can be misleading; Insight of the events that occurred in the Holocaust; Reference to the comic book `Maus' by Art...
- The hidden parts of the Jewish Holocaust. // Commentary;Mar1985, Vol. 79 Issue 3, p32
The preoccupation of Holocaust stories with the historical records in the German archives has tended to obscure the participation of other peoples in the destruction of European Jewry. The willingness of Germans to accept responsibility for genocide has diverted attention from widespread...
- Perversions of the Holocaust. Dawidowicz, L.S. // Commentary;Oct89, Vol. 88 Issue 4, p56
Opinion. Rebuts and condemns several West German historians who are propounding theories tracing the Holocaust to the impersonal functionings of a corrupt Nazi bureaucracy. Structuralist/functionalist historians; Particular works.
