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  • Giovanni Volpato, 'Arch of Titus,' circa 1780; gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
    Giovanni Volpato, 'Arch of Titus,' circa 1780; gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
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    Berenice, the Jewish Queen of Rome, and the Origins of Replacement Theory

    How fear that a single Jew could transform Western society into a Jewish empire led to a broader anti-Semitism

    byFredric Brandfon
  • Searching on a curfew day at Lydda, 1934-1939
    Searching on a curfew day at Lydda, 1934-1939
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    Turning History Into Fiction

    Elias Khoury’s novelization of 1948 makes up more than just its characters and plot. Does it matter?

    byAdam Kirsch
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    The Ghetto

    503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today?

    byBenjamin Ravid
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    Inside a Muslim Ghetto

    Dispatch from Aung Mingalar, Myanmar, where more than 4,000 Rohingya live separated, just across the road, from the rest of the city

    byJoe Freeman
  • Undated photo of a section of the eight-foot high concrete wall encircling the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.
    Undated photo of a section of the eight-foot high concrete wall encircling the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.
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    Ghetto: The Shared History of a Word

    The Jewish ghetto haunts sociologist Mitchell Duneier’s new history of the American one

    byAdam Kirsch
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    (Flickr)
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    A Jewish Ghetto Worth Saving

    The ghetto that trapped Venice’s Jews is getting a renovation after 500 years

    byLivia Albeck-Ripka
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    Designers of New York’s High Line Set Their Sights on Moscow’s Former Ghetto

    An ambitious new park is set to transform the dilapidated neighborhood that was once the Russian capital’s first Jewish quarter

    byJoy Neumeyer
  • 1943 Theresienstadt league results and standing, showing that "Kuche" (i.e., workers from the kitchen) won first place.(Collage Tablet Magazine, original images courtesy of the author and Danielle Mahrer.)
    1943 Theresienstadt league results and standing, showing that "Kuche" (i.e., workers from the kitchen) won first place.(Collage Tablet Magazine, original images courtesy of the author and Danielle Mahrer.)
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    Hitler’s Jewish Soccer League

    A new documentary exposes the football team of the Terezin ghetto—part of the Nazis’ strategy to fool the world

    byTodd Warnick
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    Great Escape

    On Yom HaShoah, one woman’s story of tunneling from a Polish work camp

    byUnknown Author
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