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October 16, 2019

German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning across Generations

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What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? Drawing on her own history as the daughter of German parents who lived through the Nazi years, Bammer explores questions of guilt,...

October 24, 2019

Waking Henry Iliowizi, Or How Jews Have Something to Learn from the Dead

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Henry Iliowizi, one of the first rabbis of Minneapolis, was a Russian-Jewish writer who was sent to the U.S. in 1880 by a Hassidic organization in Paris and became the rabbi of Congregation...

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