Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Menachem Taffel's body, part of the Jewish skeleton collection. The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by Nazi Germany to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the Jews' status as Untermenschen ("subhumans"), in contrast to the Aryan race, which the Nazis considered to be superior.
Alice Simon (née Remak; August 30, 1887 – c. August 11–13, 1943) was a German woman of Polish and Jewish ancestry, who was killed by the Nazis during The Holocaust. Her remains were later identified as part of the Jewish skull collection , and she is commemorated with a Stolperstein in front of her former home in Berlin .
The Jewish Review of Books is a quarterly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs from a Jewish perspective. It is published in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. [1] The magazine was launched in 2010 with an editorial board that included Michael Walzer and Ruth Wisse, Shlomo Avineri, Ruth Gavison, [2] and other prominent Jewish ...
The book Als Christ nenne ich Sie einen Lügner – Theodor Rollers Aufbegehren gegen Hitler (As a Christian, I Call You a Liar:Theodor Roller's revolt against Hitler) tells the story of a young bank accountant named Theodor Roller who refused to sign an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, and wrote letters to Hitler explaining his faith. As a ...
This is a list of the winners of the National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. [1] [2] [3] They are awarded by the Jewish Book Council, a New-York based non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Jewish literature since 1944.
American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, actor, and publisher. Marvel, Himself Romanian Jewish Al Lewis: 1920–2006 American actor Best known as Grandpa Munster [375] Jerry Lewis: 1926–2017 American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons ...
In his book Russia at War, 1941–1945, Alexander Werth claims that while visiting Gdańsk /Danzig in 1945 shortly after its conquest by the Red Army, he saw an experimental factory outside the city for making soap from human corpses. According to Werth, it had been run by "a German professor called Spanner" and it "was a nightmarish sight ...
Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award [109] Harvey Swados, novelist and essayist [30] Judd L. Teller, writer, historian, poet. [110] Jonathan Tropper, novelist [111] Leopold Tyrmand, writer [112] Leon Uris, novelist [113]