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  • A Jewish policeman and a German soldier direct pedestrian traffic across the main street dividing the two parts of the Lodz Ghetto. The German sign at the entrance to the ghetto reads, 'Jewish residential area, entrance is forbidden.'
    A Jewish policeman and a German soldier direct pedestrian traffic across the main street dividing the two parts of the Lodz Ghetto. The German sign at the entrance to the ghetto reads, 'Jewish residential area, entrance is forbidden.'
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    Kapos

    After the war, could Jews be found guilty of partnering with the Nazis? Dan Porat’s insightful ‘Bitter Reckoning’ seeks an answer.

    byDavid Mikics
  • Oscar Isaac (left) stars as Peter Malkin and Ben Kingsley stars as Adolf Eichmann in 'Operation Finale.'
    Oscar Isaac (left) stars as Peter Malkin and Ben Kingsley stars as Adolf Eichmann in 'Operation Finale.'
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    Eichmann in Full

    Chris Weitz’s new ‘Operation Finale’ elegantly escapes turning into another dreary film that’s too embalmed in reverence to deal with real emotions

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Collage: Tablet Magazine; original images: Leo Baeck Institute; Zeitgeist Films
    Collage: Tablet Magazine; original images: Leo Baeck Institute; Zeitgeist Films
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    A Shared Debt: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

    How ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ led the thinkers into a principled disagreement over Zionism and universalism that ultimately broke their quarter-century bond

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Inset image: Tsibele
    Inset image: Tsibele
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    Caught With My Khalemoyed in My Hand

    Rokhl’s Golden City: In the off-days of Sukkot: not going to shul, going out with observant friends to hear an all-female klezmer band, and visiting Eichmann at a museum

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • A photograph documenting the shooting of 'Theresienstadt,' a propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos."
    A photograph documenting the shooting of 'Theresienstadt,' a propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos."
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    The Coerced Community of Theresienstadt

    H.G. Adler survived the Holocaust to write a monumental, meticulous study of the Nazi’s ‘model community,’ one of the first of its kind, in German. Why did it take so long to be translated to English?

    byPeter Filkins
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    Stuck Between Berlin and Jerusalem

    What kind of Zionist was Gershom Scholem?

    byShaul Magid
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