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November 14, 2016

Yaffa Eliach, Child Survivor and Historian Who Tried to Humanize Hitler’s Victims

In memoriam.

Born in 1937, Yaffa Eliach—who died last Wednesday—survived the Shoah with her family by hiding with Christian peasants. She then came to the U.S., where she became an influential historian and Holocaust educator. Joseph Berger writes:

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November 14, 2016

  1. The Easiest Way to Undo the Iran Deal? Let the Ayatollahs Walk Away.

    It will collapse on its own.

  2. How Big Is the Divide between American Jews and Israel? And What’s It About?

    Many opinions.

  3. Why the IDF Needs to Build Up Its Ground Forces

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  4. Yaffa Eliach, Child Survivor and Historian Who Tried to Humanize Hitler’s Victims

    In memoriam.

  5. Why the “Torah and Secular Scholarship” Movement Hasn’t Triumphed

    An educational failure.