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The Scapegoat, Katherine Ludwig
The Scapegoat, Katherine Ludwig
Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies
This essay responds to a claim made in the aftermath of an Anti-Semitic attack. It discusses the treatment of Jews in Europe around the time of the Holocaust and what may have motivated this treatment.
The Eichmann Trial, The Jewish Question, And The American-Jewish Intelligentsia, Pnina Lahav
The Eichmann Trial, The Jewish Question, And The American-Jewish Intelligentsia, Pnina Lahav
Faculty Scholarship
The abduction, trial, and execution of Adolf Karl Eichmann by the state of Israel, fifteen years after the shutdown of the crematoria at Auschwitz, challenged the American Jewish intelligentsia to confront the Jewish question.4 What does it mean to be a Jew in America and who is an American Jew? Is the Jewish history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust also a part of American-Jewish history? Is there a lesson in the destruction of European Jewry-the triumph of anti-Semitism, the failure of assimilation-relevant to American Jews? Is there a national component to being Jewish? Are Jews a people? If so, is …