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The great void: On the absence of European Jews from the life of the Jewish people and European culture

The great void: On the absence of European Jews from the life of the Jewish people and European culture
By Bambi Sheleg  |  04/02/2010
Eretz Acheret is on a journey to the roots of the sorrow and pain, dilemmas, sins, dreams and challenges facing the Jewish people and Israeli society at this time. This journey is shaped on all sides by the constitutive events that befell our people in the twentieth century – first and foremost the Holocaust of Europea...

Scorched Earth and Longing
By Aviva Zarka  |  04/02/2010
The Jews disappeared from Poland and left behind a rich life with houses, synagogues and cemeteries that are no more. After the Nazi occupation, after the Soviet invasion, and as a free state in the European Union, the Poles are beginning to contemplate the void.

An Impossible Project
By Laurent Cohen  |  04/02/2010
To make people hear the sound of absence, to investigate the emptiness and to grant to silence the role of another language. Laurent Cohen on culture after Auschwitz

Blog - 04 February 2010
By Agata Pełeszuk  |  04/02/2010
The Holocaust denial triggers criticism among mainstream of societies and academics. The key danger of this historical revisionism is not the falsification of facts, but rather aspirations to consider the denial as the legitimate interpretation of historical data. Many states try to fight this phenomena legally by outl...

An Israeli in Berlin - Conversion on the dance floor
By Amit Epstein  |  04/02/2010
The lists I write for the on-line magazine should be an open channel of thoughts under the context of me being an Israeli who lives in Berlin - theoretically, a situation of contradiction.This time I'm writing from Tel-Aviv - maybe it's the time and place to communicate about the impact and echo of the name &...

A Letter from London - A decade of Jewish cultural pessimism
By Antony Lerman  |  04/02/2010
In the competition I ran in my head for the phrase that best characterises the Jewish state of mind in the past decade, ‘Jewish cultural pessimism' won hands down. For an optimist like me, that's an awful admission. I can list many reasons to be cheerful about the noughties, but they are easily swept away by ...

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