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Rebuilding Poland’s Jewish Community

Posted by on Jan 31, 2015 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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1 comment In the Middle Ages, when Jews in Europe experienced a wave of persecutions connected to their imagined complicity in the Black Death, King Kazimierz welcomed the persecuted to Poland. It was a golden age of tolerance in the country. Rumor has it that the king even had a Jewish mistress. I learned all this when I visited the town of Kazimierz Dolny in 1989 with Rachel Zacharia, a Jewish...
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The State of Romanian Extremism

Posted by on Jan 12, 2015 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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0 comments Romania Mare (Greater Romania) was founded in 1990 first as a magazine and then as a political party by two former court poets of the Ceausescu era: Corneliu Vadim Tudor and Eugen Barbu. As its name suggests, the ultra-nationalist party has been dedicated to expanding the borders of Romania to encompass Moldova and parts of Ukraine. It has also combined anti-Semitism and anti-Roma sentiment with...
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The Church as Opposition

Posted by on Nov 21, 2014 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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0 comments Before the Solidarity trade union emerged in 1980, Poland’s primary non-state institution – and often anti-state institution — was the Church. Catholic intellectuals created discussion clubs and published periodicals. Churches were relatively safe places to voice dissent. John Paul II, originally Karol Wojtyla, became the first Polish Pope in 1978 and inspired many in his home country...
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