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Archive for August 12th, 2017
August 12th, 2017 - 1:15 am § in Misc.
When Does a Jew Lose His or Her Identity as a Jew?
“On August 12, 1952, Bergelson’s sixty-eighth birthday, he was executed.2 For decades, before the transcripts of the trial became accessible to the public following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the date was known, and observed in many Jewish communities the world over, as the Night of t[...]