Sublime

Dr. David Sencer had blandly stated that AIDS was not “an emergency” in New York City. The city needed no education programs because gays were doing such a good job of educating themselves.

The tragic consequences were immense. The negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the early Christian literature led to centuries of persecutions, crusades, blood libels, expulsions, disputations, inquisitions and pogroms.

“Every Hebrew boy in the Land of Israel now weighs as ten, as we have lost Jewish communities ten times as large as the Jewish community of Palestine,” writes Gutman, inspired by Tabenkin.

Jewish victims, which later went unclaimed because the owners perished.

In January 1942, the Nazi senior officials met in Wannsee, Germany. The Wannsee Conference disseminated the new plan of action to Nazi leaders across Europe: Germany would round up Jews and send them to extermination camps in Poland to be gassed and incinerated. By the spring of 1942, one million Russian Jews and hundreds of thousands of Polish Jew

7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory

Yavetz was but one of a number of writers shaping the Yishuv. Another, who became a leading writer not only of the Yishuv but of the Western world, was Shmuel Yosef (Shai) Czaczkes,