Word: kristallnacht
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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...
...Kristallnacht" refers to the night of Nov. 9, 1938, when the Nazi government instigated attacks on Jews, their property, and their synagogues throughout Germany and Austria...
...Kristallnacht became the first state-sponsored physical brutality against the Jewish people, according to Bernstein, who called the pogrom "organized spontaneity...
Bernstein suggested that contemporary Americans might be able to relate more easily to educated, urbane citizens struck down by government, legislation, and bystanders in Kristallnacht than to the phantasmagorical skeletons of Auschwitz...
...more like the Ganges. The coming days will also test the new Pope's mettle on the political and inter-religious fronts. On Friday, he will meet with German Jewish leaders at a momentous ceremony Friday at Cologne's synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis on the infamous Kristallnacht rampage in 1938. He also has meetings with German Muslim leaders and non-Catholic Christians, as well as top political leaders on the eve of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's bid for re-election...