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Prague subway employee allegedly threatened to ‘cut off’ head of kippah-wearing passenger
The company operating Prague’s subway is investigating a complaint alleging one of its employees threatened to “cut off the head” of a Jewish passenger wearing a kippah.
Jewish man, 38, killed in Manhattan crane collapse
A 38-year-old Jewish man was killed when a construction crane collapsed on his car in Manhattan.
Survivors relive horrors of ‘model ghetto’ Theresienstadt
Dozens of survivors of the Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague returned to the site for a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of their rescue.
EU official: Tensions with Russia must not muddle Holocaust record
Political tensions with Russia must not be allowed to obfuscate the historical record on the Holocaust, a senior European Union official said.
Politics, Putin cast shadow over Auschwitz liberation anniversary
When they announced the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Polish officials insisted that at this year’s event, “the eyes of the world will be focused” on about 300 Holocaust survivors whose presence Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp near Krakow may be the last gathering of its sort.
The Jewish dressmaker FDR turned away
Was the Jewish “lady tailor” who ran a Prague dressmaking shop a potential Nazi spy? The Roosevelt administration apparently thought so.
Czech police find weapons at Palestinian mission
Czech investigators found unregistered weapons at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Prague, police said on Thursday, a day after the ambassador was killed in a mysterious explosion after opening a safe.
Kafka — demystifying the man behind the “Kafkaesque” mystique
Franz Kafka has entered our language as an adjective — “Kafkaesque” is applied nowadays to almost anything that strikes us as senseless or surreal — but the man himself remains obscure. Saul Friedlander’s short biography in Yale’s Jewish Lives series, “Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt” (Yale University Press, $25.00), offers an intriguing effort to fill in the blanks of a famous but little-understood author.