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Even well-meaning efforts like Holocaust-education mandates and Shoah memorials ignore the layers and layers of Jewish history and complexity, leaving Jews as convenient abstractions for antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In other words, the mindful recording of Holocaust survival stories for future generations (think Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California).
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
This is, after all, the place of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and UJA galas and the Shoah Foundation (if not necessarily, as was all too clear several years ago, of an inclusive Academy museum).
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
His attempt to blame the plight of the wretched of the Earth on the Shoah’s central place in Western culture is unmoored from evidence.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
In recent statements, Western heads of state have tried to underscore the importance of preserving the historical memory of the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
With Auschwitz-Birkenau under the control of Poland, a country where antisemitism tragically continues to raise its ugly head, there is great concern that Shoah memory will be distorted.
—Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
As a symbol of the Shoah, Auschwitz obscures the courage of Jewish resisters.
—Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In other words, the mindful recording of Holocaust survival stories for future generations (think Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California).
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
This is, after all, the place of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and UJA galas and the Shoah Foundation (if not necessarily, as was all too clear several years ago, of an inclusive Academy museum).
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
His attempt to blame the plight of the wretched of the Earth on the Shoah’s central place in Western culture is unmoored from evidence.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
In recent statements, Western heads of state have tried to underscore the importance of preserving the historical memory of the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
With Auschwitz-Birkenau under the control of Poland, a country where antisemitism tragically continues to raise its ugly head, there is great concern that Shoah memory will be distorted.
—Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
As a symbol of the Shoah, Auschwitz obscures the courage of Jewish resisters.
—Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Shoah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shoah. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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