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Come for the JDC Archives Blog, stay for Eddie Cantor on Sound Cloud

09/29/2016rdeblinger
Eddie Cantor SOS Script, JDC Archives

I’m honored to be featured on the JDC Archives Blog today. I have explored the depths of their collection for many years and am thrilled that they invested so heavily in digitizing the whole of their archival materials. It’s a… Continue Reading →

Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Holocaust Studies, Jewish History, UCSC Digital Jewish Studies, Jewish Organizations, Refugees, Technology

Special Issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Focus on Refugees

12/23/2015rdeblinger
Refugees at the Fort Ontario Refugee Camp, Oswego, New York, August 1944

Looking for more historical precedents to contextualize the current refugee crisis? Check out the special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies on refugees – made available free from Oxford University Press. These essays help “narrow the gap between historical facts and rhetoric”… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Immigration HolocaustMemory, Refugees

A History of Jewish Displacement & American Refuge

08/07/2015rdeblinger

HIAS has organized a campaign asking people to Stand up for Refugee Resettlement. You can (and should) TAKE ACTION NOW > In the wake of the Holocaust, when thousands of Jewish survivors and other refugees remained in camps, the United… Continue Reading →

Immigration HIAS, Jewish Organizations, Refugees

A Jewish mandate to act: 60 million refugees around the world

06/19/2015rdeblinger

World Refugee Day is tomorrow (June 20). In recognition, HIAS has released this video that calls on Jews to remember their history as refugees and to help those still displaced. The video is powerful and compelling. In particular, I am… Continue Reading →

Immigration, Jewish History Immigration, Memories/Motifs, Refugees, World Refugee Day

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