Contaminated Science: The Contribution of German Spatial Research to the Genocide of the European Jews by Oliver Werner

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EUROPEAN JEWS IN RUSSIAN TURKESTAN AT THE TURN OF THE 19-20TH CENTURIES by Semen I Gitlin

“…It is noted that the vast majority of the first European Jews were former military - privates and non-commissioned officers. …”
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The origin of Eastern European Jews revealed by autosomal, sex chromosomal and mtDNA polymorphisms by Zoossmann-Diskin Avshalom

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This study aims to establish the likely origin of EEJ (Eastern European Jews) by genetic distance analysis of autosomal markers and haplogroups on the X and Y chromosomes and mtDNA.…”
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Filmography of the Genocide: Official and Ephemeral Film Documents on the Persecution and Extermination of the European Jews 1933–1945 by Fabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller

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The Mass Murder of the European Jews and the Concept of ‘Genocide’ in the Nuremberg Trials: Reassessing Raphaël Lemkin’s Impact by Alexa Stiller

“…They used different definitions of Lemkin’s concept and interpreted the relationship between the mass murder of the European Jews and the entire mass violence of the Nazis differently. …”
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Atrocity Film by Fabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller

“…What if the SS as the main Nazi organisation responsible for the Holocaust produced a secret film about the persecution and murder of the European Jews during World War II? This essay discusses the possible production of a documentary film about the genocide, made by the perpetrators. …”
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THE THEORY OF AUTOCHTONOUS ZIONISM IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES IN ISRAEL 1961-1967 by Michal Haramati

“…This research follows political organizations consisting of non-European Jews, autochthonous in the Middle Eastern region, named here Oriental and Sephardic Jews. …”
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“I no longer agree with Hitler to exterminate them…”. Teaching The Holocaust to Malaysian BA German-Students Through Selected History Films by Torsten Schaar, Chang Shi Wen

“… The article describes experiences in teaching the sensitive topic of the industrial extermination of European Jews during World War II (the Holocaust) in the BA German programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia. …”
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Archival Review: A showcase of the German Historical Knowledge Landscape – The Library of the German Historical Institute (GHI) Warsaw by Ruth Leiserowitz

“…Its collection spans the history of Germany and Poland, the history of German-Polish relations in a European and international context, and the history of Eastern European Jews. …”
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Reflections on Minority Cultures in China: A Photo Essay by Robert Landy

“…In further in reflecting on the journey, the author acknowledges the impact of his mentor – a refuge from mainland China in 1949 – and his own heritage as an American Jew descended from generations of East European Jews displaced by pograms and by the Holocaust.…”
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La guerre des langues : pourquoi l’hébreu a triomphé by Ariane Bendavid

“…: In the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, the Eastern European Jews had to make a decisive choice: either to keep alive their literary heritage or to ensure a common living language to the under construction Jewish Settlement in Palestine. …”
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Two Emperors and a Queen by Vesna Lukic

“…Vesna Lukic’s Two Emperors and a Queen, is a haunting, multi-layered documentary which documents the ‘Kladovo Transport’, the slow and painful exodus of a group of central European Jews during the World War 2, which ended in their genocide. …”
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The Canadian Media and the ‘Discovery’ of the Holocaust, 1944-1945 by David Goutor

“…This prejudice can been seen in a paradox in the press reports: although the media did write about the Holocaust, they seemed intent on downplaying the suffering of European Jews.…”
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Rewriting Israeli History: New Historians and Critical Sociologists by Adam Coman

“…These thinkers blamed the Zionist establishment for ignoring the distress of the European Jews during the Holocaust, committing war crimes against the Arab population during the 1948 War, and abusing immigrants in the years after the state’s independence. …”
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The Jews That Never Returned: Internalised Displacement in Aharon Appelfeld’s Works by Alberto Legnaioli

“…With the publication of his first collection of short stories (Smoke, 1962), Appelfeld is among the first to distance himself from the dominant Zionist narrative by giving voice to European Jews who are either unknowingly heading toward annihilation or struggling to recompose their shattered identity in the aftermath of the Shoah. …”
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Meaning in History—A Comparison Between the Works of Karl Löwith and Erich Auerbach by Matthias Bormuth

“…The expanding war and the persecution of the European Jews is taken into account as well. The second focus is directed on the experience both made at the American East Coast and how this might have influenced their later writings namely Meaning in History and Philology of World-Literature. …”
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Management Changes and Challenges to Preserve Holocaust Extermination Site by Florence LUXENBERG-EISENBERG

“…The Holocaust is named for the systematic, bureaucratic, well-organized murder and genocide of over 6,000,000 European Jews implemented by the Nazis and their collaborators. …”
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Negotiating Jewishness through genetic testing in the State of Israel by Noa Sophie Kohler

“…Based on a scientific research article on matrilineal genetic markers among Eastern and Central European Jews, the rabbinical dean of an institute for advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem proposed to accept, under certain conditions, the presence of specific genetic markers as legal proof of “Jewishness.” …”
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La défense de l’idéal sioniste au Canada, point de rencontre entre Juifs et chrétiens 1939–1947 by Laurent Tessier

“…The priority was to find support among the Canadian population so that parliamentarians and the Canadian government would put pressure on London to end the migration restrictions on persecuted European Jews to Palestine. Canadian Jewish Zionists found singular support among a few English-speaking Christian compatriots whose familiarity with the biblical stories nurtured a certain sympathy for their cause. …”
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The Writer in Exile: by Rebecca Haque

“…Born into a family of European Jews displaced by the Second World War, Brookner projects the collective memory and the life experience — the angst — of the émigré and the refugee. …”
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