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Cecile E. Kuznitz
October 7: Trials of Zion, Memories of Diaspora
The instinctive return to diaspora history reflects the profound trauma of October 7, but what does it miss and what does it get right?
A Book and a Sword in the Vilna Ghetto
If the destruction of Jewish culture and Jewish life were intertwined, then the reverse was also true: The rescue of books, manuscripts, Torahs, and so on was almost as much a form of resistance as the preservation of life itself.