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To White Supremacists, Jews Are Responsible for All Ills
How racism and anti-Semitism work together in the minds of the Charlottesville marchers.
James Loeffler
James Loeffler, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and scholar-in-residence at Pro Musica Hebraica, is currently the Robert A. Savitt fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His “The Death of Jewish Culture” was the featured monthly essay in Mosaic for May 2014.
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Raphael Lemkin, Who Coined the Term “Genocide,” Was an Ardent Zionist
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The Concert That Revived the Spirit of Soviet Jewry
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Wagner’s Jewish Followers
By James LoefflerIn the 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery , Woody Allen remarks: “I can’t listen to too much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.” This quip comes to mind on reading Nathan Shi...
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The Death of Jewish Culture Revisited
By James LoefflerFelix Posen writes: The title of James Loeffler’s essay , “ The Death of Jewish Culture ,” shocked me sufficiently to want to read not only the essay itself but also the three responses to it by Micha...
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The Case Against Richard Wagner
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Jewish Culture and Its Discontents
By James LoefflerLet me begin by thanking Michael Weingrad , Jonathan Rosen , and Abraham Socher for their engaging reflections on my essay, “ The Death of Jewish Culture .” I’ll address their specific comments b...
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The Death of Jewish Culture
By James LoefflerNot so long ago, Jewish culture seemed to flourish in America; but now all signs point in the opposite direction. What happened?
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The Moynihan Moment
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The Myth of Holocaust Music
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