Hadassah Levinson-Strauss

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Feb 2, 2021, 7:14 PM

Why are Nazi camps different than other camps? Part VI

Part VI of a Six-Day Series: Conclusion. UNFAIR "CONCENTRATION CAMPS" COMPARISONS: IS THERE ANYTHING JEWISH LEFT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST? If the British invented concentration camps, the Nazis redefined them as the epitome of pure evil. Unfortunately, current encyclopedias and organizations fall...

Feb 2, 2021, 12:25 AM

Why are Nazi camps different than other camps? Part V

Part V of a Six-Day Series HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS BEFORE THE NAZIS Historically, major world powers established concentration camps in their own countries or in their colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before the Nazis did. Among...

Jan 31, 2021, 11:30 PM

Why are Nazi Camps Different than Other Camps? Part IV

Part IV of a Six-Day Series ALL TALK AND ZERO ACTION: 32 NATIONS MEET AT THE 1938 EVIAN CONFERENCE AND FAIL TO PREVENT THE HOLOCAUST Even as violence against Jews in Nazi Germany before WWII escalated to extermination from street riots,...

Jan 29, 2021, 7:07 PM

Why are Nazi Camps Different from Other Camps? Part III

PART III OF A SIX-DAY SERIES ALL TALK AND ZERO ACTION: THIRTY TWO NATIONS MEET AT THE 1938 EVIAN CONFERENCE AND FAIL TO PREVENT THE HOLOCAUST. Even as violence against Jews in Nazi Germany before WWII escalated to extermination from street...

Jan 28, 2021, 7:18 PM

Why are Nazi Camps Different than Other Camps? Part II

PART II OF A SIX-DAY SERIES NAZI PROPAGANDA AND THE DEHUMANIZATION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY Once Hitler concretized his hatred of Jews into a racial ideology, his next step was to convince both, his administration and the German people of the need...

Jan 28, 2021, 9:08 AM

Why are Nazi Camps Different from Other Camps? Part I

This Essay will be published in six parts daily in remembrance of the six million Jews and other victims of the Shoah. PART I: UNFAIR COMPARISONS OF BORDER CAMPS WITH THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS DURING THE HOLOCAUST In the past...

Dec 16, 2020, 12:06 AM

The Jewish Link in Rembrandt’s Sacrifice of Isaac

Rembrandt, The Sacrifice of Isaac, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Sacrifice of Isaac (Akeidat Yitzhak in Hebrew), one of the most transcendental moments in the Torah which defined monotheism and abolished child sacrifice in ancient pagan societies is brilliantly depicted by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in...

Oct 12, 2020, 11:42 AM

Volozhin: The rise and demise of the ‘mother of all yeshivas’

ESSAY REVIEW: Shacter, Jacob J., Haskalah, Secular Studies and the Close of the Yeshiva in Volozhin in 1892, The Torah U-Madda Journal, Vol. 2 (1990), pp. 76-133, published by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University....

Aug 18, 2020, 11:01 PM

Heschel’s The Earth is the Lord’s: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe

Book Review: Heschel, Abraham Joshua, The Earth is the Lord’s: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont, Third Publishing 2001. Once upon a time, there was a magical and mystical world in Eastern...

Jun 11, 2020, 9:20 PM

Moon Exploration: From the Torah to NASA

The world is fighting a deadly virus that travels at the speed of light causing death, havoc, lockdowns, curfews, and political quarrels. Yet, nothing stops mankind’s ambitions to “go boldly where no man has gone before.” This Star Trek...

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About Me

Hadassah Levinson is a Judaic Studies teacher at Jewish Day Schools and instructor for young adults at Jewish centers in Manhattan. She is a recent graduate of Yeshiva University's M.A. in Modern Jewish History and she is currently enrolled in graduate studies in American Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Touro College. She is an iFellows at the iCenter for Israel Education. She has prior graduate degrees in Communications (NYU '95); and Journalism and International Affairs (Columbia University 2000).

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