Had the Holocaust Not Happened, How Many Jews Would be Alive Today? A Survey of Jewish Demography, 1890–2000doi:10.1080/17504902.1997.11087052Sander A. DiamondRoutledgeJournal of Holocaust Education
And in today's prove-it-to-me world, that's not nearly enough. "I just think that people quietly buried it and stopped talking about it," says psychiatrist Joel Paris, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and a research associate in the department of psychiatry at Jewish General ...
Numbers do not, and should not, pop out of the sky or from the alembic of the chief investigators who produce them. Jewish population estimates are not mere numbers. Numbers offer a snapshot of a situation at a given point in time.
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which were great for the war effort but easy targets. On returned bombers the wings were the most popular destination for bullets, and so the knee-jerk response was to fit them with armor. But the Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald saw things differently, believing it wasn’t the most bullet...
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Pythagorasfounded a schoolnear what is now the port city of Crotone in southern Italy, which was named the Semicircle of Pythagoras. Followers, who were sworn to a code of secrecy, learned to contemplate numbers in a fashion similar to the Jewish mysticism of Kaballah. In Pythagoras' philosophy...
“So the first set of lies are what we call common stories or conspiracy theories about Jewish people that falsely imagined Jewish people as being in control of banks, the media, Hollywood, the entire economy, etc,” he says. The second “is a set of dehumanizing lies about Jewish people...
The existence of living Jews in Germany today has been utilized in a “theater of memory” to rehabilitate Germany’s self-image. Everyone has a role: contrite Germans, conciliatory Jews. Many major German cities and some states have their own “Israeli-Jewish” cultural festival or a “Jewish...
us.Take time today to reach out and, in doing so, make your life more worthwhile. Helping one another is something that we, as people, need to understand the actual value of when we do it.When we support one another,we are doing God’s willin our lives through our service to one ...