Deja Vu again for liberal Jews and Holocaust survivor

Published: 28 August 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

“My great uncle didn’t want to leave France, but he felt alienated from the country he called home. Right now, a lot of American liberal Jews are feeling exactly the same way.”

My great uncle was alienated in postwar France. Now Americans know how he felt (The Guardian)
These are strange times for liberal Jews who, like me, were born in America only because their grandparents ran there to escape fascism (Aug 26)

This Holocaust Survivor Noticed A Detail In Charlottesville You Might Have Missed (Huffington Post)
“You see something like this, you know, it brings back memories and I’m concerned about what could happen in this country.”(Aug 26)

'How Is This Happening Here?' Jews in Uber-liberal California Face anti-Semitism Wave (Haaretz)
A series of attacks shocks residents of the Bay Area town of Alameda, as acts of anti-Semitism increase 30 percent across California, according to the Anti-Defamation League (Aug 27)

Photo: White nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach yells at the media outside the Charlottesville General Courthouse on Aug. 14 (JUSTIN IDE / REUTERS)