Word: zakim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday at Faneuil Hall. Among the panelists were Associate Professor of Government Daniel J. Goldhagen '81; James E. Young, associate professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Margot Stern Strom, executive director of the educational non-profit organization Facing History and Ourselves; and Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
...Zakim questioned the politics of rememberingthe Holocaust...
...Zakim said that it has come to light onlyrecently that Switzerland was not neutral inhoarding Nazi Gold in its banks. Furthermore,there is still a problem with insurance defaultsand neo-Nazi activities in the United States, hesaid...
According to Zakim, history is only valuable ifcitizens learn from past mistakes and work tocombat racism and anti-Semitism today. Judaism isa faith based on deeds, not words, he said, andthe best measure of the legacy of the Holocaust iswhat the younger generation does to combat racism...