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Tues 8.26.08| Solidarity Against the Nazis

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Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism U. of California Press, 2008

 

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In Poland, Lithuania, and elsewhere in Nazi-occupied Europe, Jews imprisoned in ghettos fought back valiantly yet with little support from non-Jews. But, as historian Barbara Epstein narrates, a very different story took place in Belorussia, orchestrated by a grassroots communist-led underground.

 

Tues 7.01.08| Jewish and Anti-Zionist

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Jews who criticize Zionism are often reviled as self-hating, yet it is a long and noble tradition on the Jewish left. Radical writer Mike Marqusee, author of If I Am Not for Myself, talks about the complex politics of being an anti-Zionist Jew.

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