Word: bernstein
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Students and faculty gathered at Harvard Hillel last night to hear David I. Bernstein, dean of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, lecture on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), on the eve of the event’s 67th anniversary...
...talk, Bernstein said that current understanding of event’s history would help ensure that a similar atrocity will not be repeated...
...morning of Nov. 10, more than 7,000 Jewish businesses had been destroyed, 200 synagogues burned down, and cemeteries and schools vandalized. Bernstein said it would have taken the leading Belgian industry a full year to produce the amount of glass destroyed in that one night...
Kristallnacht became the first state-sponsored physical brutality against the Jewish people, according to Bernstein, who called the pogrom "organized spontaneity...
Most children have to be dragged to the symphony. When Marin Alsop's parents took her to see Leonard Bernstein, she went nuts. She was 9 years old. "It's a little weird, isn't it?" she says. "But when I saw Bernstein conduct, I was like, Aha! He's having such a good time, he's jumping around, and he's in charge. I think that's what...