Tag: Holocaust

Genocide and the Social Death of Children

Non-lethal elements of genocide are too often dismissed.

On the Rise and Fall of Human Rights

From Arendt, to Douglass, to Palestine—what does it mean to have a “right to rights”? By Mark Goodale

Message in a Bottle

The buried manuscript of a Greek Jewish inmate of Auschwitz. The main gate of Auschwitz. Creative Commons image by Tulio Bertorini via Wikimedia Commons. In a Q&A with the editors of Sephardi Lives, each was asked to share some of what they regarded as being 

Dear Rebecca …

A Turkish Jew interned at Drancy writes home. The camp in Drancy, circa 1941. Creative Commons image from the Bundesarchiv of Germany via Wikimedia Commons. The following is a letter from Yaco Soulam, detained in Drancy, to his wife, Rebecca in Paris. The letter was