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The Jewish Daily Forward recently profiled six Jewish women who played important roles in the Civil War. About 10,000 Jewish men fought in the Civil War, for both the Union and Confederate armies. When these soldiers set off for battle, they left behind their wives, sisters and daughters, who stayed to raise the children and run the households and, sometimes, […]
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The following is a guest post from Bruce Wolk, the author of the soon-to-be published book titled Stars on My Wings, which sounds amazing. More than two years in the writing, “Stars on My Wings,” is based on 93 first-person interviews with Jewish WWII veterans who were involved in all aspects of the air war and in all branches of the service. The […]
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Legion Magazine has a fantastic article about Werner Kleeman, a 91-year-old Jewish WWII veteran, whose story is rather unique and amazing. Mr. Kleeman, a German citizen at the time, was rounded up and sent to the Dachau camp just after Kristalnacht. In what was surely a continuous series of amazingly fortunate events, Kleeman was able to secure his release from […]
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In Arlington National Cemetery, there is a unique monument known as “Chaplains Hill” that memorializes the names of 242 chaplains who perished while on active duty. Strangely enough, none of the 13 Jewish chaplains who have died while serving are honored there. There has been a movement to change that for some time now. Everything was on track […]
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I came across a book review of Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine in a most surprising place: a recent issue of The Jewish Georgian. The name Krulak is always familiar to me, as General Charles Krulak (the son of the subject of the book) was one of the few Commandants of the Marine Corps I have personally […]
Read moreFrom the NY Times Like many veterans, Max Fuchs did not talk much about what he did in the war. His children knew he landed at Omaha Beach. Sometimes, they were allowed to feel the shrapnel still lodged in his chest. And once, he had told them, he sang as the cantor in a Jewish prayer service on the battlefield. […]
Read moreAn older URL, to be sure, but one worth posting nevertheless. I intend to use the exhibit with the kids in my Religious School class this year for a multimedia project. This online exhibit, hosted at Florida Atlantic University Library’s contains a PDF of Seymour “Sy” Brody’s Jews in America’s Military, accompanied by a curriculum guide. http://www.fau.edu/library/brody_intro.htm Members of Jewish […]
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