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Letters to the Editor
Jerusalem Post

Dear editor:

Amotz Asa-El (Up Front, May 7) recalls how, during the 1940s, "a fragmented and low self-esteemed American Jewry ... failed to even dent, let alone offset, the catastrophe of European Jewry," and that experience, "more than anything else, fueled Jewish solidarity’s finest hour," that is, the Soviet Jewry protest movement in the United States.  For me, the connection between American Jewry's response to the Holocaust and the activism of the Soviet Jewry protesters in the 1960s was most vividly illustrated in the work of Morris Brafman, one of the pioneers of Soviet Jewry activism in America  I had the privilege of working side by side with Morris in his organization, the American League for the Repatriation of Russian Jews.  A refugee from Nazi Germany, Morris's decision to devote decades of his life to the struggle for Soviet Jewry was clearly shaped by his determination to ensure that American Jews in the 1960s-1970s not repeat the failures of the previous generation.

Sincerely,

Nina K. Solarz
Chair, Task Force on Education
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Melrose Park, PA

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Yes, Let's Be Candid About the Mideast
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The Jews in Iran
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The Failure to Bomb Auschwitz
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Mel Gibson's Critics
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Jo Davidson: Sculptor and Activist
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Nazi War Criminals in Arab Countries
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Israel and Auschwitz
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William Safire and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Betty Friedan and the Nazis
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Civil Liberties, in Nazi Germany and the U.S.
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Paul McCloskey and the Deniers
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Holocaust Denial is Bigotry
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Not Just "Following Orders"
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Melvin Lasky and the Holocaust
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Saudi Arabian Holocaust-Denial
December 15, 2005

Iranian Holocaust Denial
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Culture of Hatred in Jordan

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German Jewish Refugee Children

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An Earlier Black-Jewish Alliance

October 21, 2005

Treatment of Illegal Aliens Not Similar to Holocaust

September 4, 2005

Hollywood and the Nazi Filmmaker

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Patton's Antisemitism

August 14, 2005

Sudan, Congress, and the Holocaust

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Harvard and the Nazis

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Should the U.S. Have Bombed Auschwitz?

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Susan Sontag and the Nazi Filmmaker

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How Moss Hart Alerted America About the Holocaust

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The Quotas That Kept Out the Refugees

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FDR and the Warsaw Uprising
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A Voice for Rescue
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Mel Gibson and the Holocaust
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