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The origins and meaning of Ashkenazic last names
Jewish Journal
January 14, 2014
Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th century, but the overwhelming majority of Jews lived in Eastern Europe and did not take last names until compelled to do so. The process began in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1787 and ended in Czarist Russia in 1844.
German Jews more than victims, community head says
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2011
Jews in Germany must stop emphasizing their role as victims and develop their positive Jewish identity, said Dieter Graumann, the new head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Graumann, 60, told the Financial Times Deutschland in an end-of-the-year interview that while it is important to remember the Holocaust, Jews should not merely be seen as reminders of Germany\’s duty to never forget. Graumann, the first non-survivor to head the umbrella organization representing Jewry in Germany, was elected in November. He succeeds Charlotte Knobloch, who declined to run again. Some critics had said Knobloch, who survived the war in hiding, focused too much on negativity in her four years in office.
Courageous Acts
Tom Tugend
November 1, 2001
On April 18, 1943, as the vaunted German army marched in to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, a few hundred Jewish resistance fighters, armed with pistols, rifles and homemade Molotov cocktails, confronted the Nazi soldiers and held them at bay for almost a month.\n\n
Rosh Hashanah in Frankfurt, Germany
Murray Klein
September 28, 2000
On Friday, Sept. 7, 1945, 1800 hours, at the corner of Freiherr von Stein Strasse and Eppsteiner Strasse in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, a ceremony took place.
Through a Child’s Eyes
Naomi Pfefferman
September 14, 2000
All the time Deborah Oppenheimer was growing up, her grandparents remained silent, one-dimensional portraits in a silver frame in the living room. \”They were always there but never referred to,\” says Oppenheimer, who is in her 40\’s and the executive producer of \”Norm\” and \”The Drew Carey Show.\” \”I knew virtually nothing about them.\”
Open Discussions
Tom Tugend
May 27, 1999
Los Angeles, as always, attracted a variety of interesting visitors in recent days. The Jewish Journal couldn\’t meet all of them, but we made contact with a group of German journalists and government officials, the former executive editor of The New York Times, and the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Beyond ‘Schindler’sList’
Tom Tugend
May 7, 1998
\”He was a satyr, a black marketeer, a drunk and a savior.\”\nThe pithy description by author Thomas Keneally refers, of course, to Oskar Schindler, the flawed but ultimately heroic German businessman who saved his 1,200 Jewish employees during the Holocaust.
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