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Television host Orlin Gorbanov in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 20, 2016. (Biser Todorov/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

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Biden’s first military action: Strike on Iranian-backed targets in Syria

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

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Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

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Lowell School Committee Member Bob Hoey (Screen shot from YouTube)

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Jewish prisoner’s photos depicting horrid life in Lodz Ghetto donated to Boston museum

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Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

The Dock Worker, a statue that stands in front of the Portuguese synagogue, was inaugurated in 1952 to commemorate the participants of the 1941 February Strike in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 3:52 pm

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Mary Heller Cope, one of the first exchange students to Germany after World War II

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Biden’s first military action: Strike on Iranian-backed targets in Syria

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

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