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...gives a starred review to "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered" by professor emerita at UC-Irvine Ruth Kluger (Feminist; November). "Calmly, and chillingly, relating the everyday events of her youth - Aryan students making colored paper swastikas and then asking Jewish students to judge them...Already compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, this is an important addition to Jewish, Holocaust and women?s studies. FORECAST: This is a standout in the crowded field of Holocaust memoirs and should have strong sales...
DIED. ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN, 81, witty, accessible Presbyterian theologian who championed ecumenism and civil rights and served with Elie Wiesel on President Carter's Holocaust Commission; in Greenfield, Mass. Brown, whom TIME once called "the Catholics' favorite Protestant," co-wrote the book An American Dialogue to help dispel anti-Catholic prejudice against John F. Kennedy...
...other's claims to legitimacy. Israel and its supporters refuse to even contemplate a comparison between the Palestinian plight in the West Bank and Gaza and the condition of black South Africans under apartheid. And the Palestinians and their supporters are determined to diminish the significance of the Holocaust. Plainly, if they'd simply listen to each other, they may have a better idea of how why their peace efforts thus far have failed. But this conference is less about dialogue than about the race to place one's grievances on the record, preferably at the expense...
...hopes that the Vatican might open its long-secret archives to those researching Pope Pius XII's role in World War II and the Holocaust vanished last week--perhaps for years to come. A church-initiated joint Catholic-Jewish historical committee disbanded after receiving a letter from Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, saying that access to the archives was not possible "for technical reasons." The real reason, however, was probably anger. The committee, formed in 1999, was officially charged with reviewing 11 volumes culled from the archives between...
...shifted just a bit. Inspired by nieces and nephews who were Internet savvy, she enrolled in a computer course at a local community college. One course became four—besides computer basics, she enrolled in Political Science, English 101 and a history class on Critical Issues of the Holocaust...