Racism, slander, and the midterm elections; a WWII veteran finally gets his medals; bystanders at Kristallnacht; Hedy Lamarr’s inventions; more

The lessons of 1938 [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Podcast]( [Np]( November 9, 2018 [The Kristallnacht Election]( [Largeimage]( Paul Berman Eighty years after that dark night in Europe, America’s midterms were a contest to see how much of the country could be mobilized on a basis of hysteria and mass loathing [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Family / Marla Brown Fogelman [Precious Medals]( Even though he always insisted, ‘I didn’t do anything,’ my father finally got the military medals he earned in WWII—and I finally heard his stories about his service [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Europe / Robert Rockaway [Night Falls: German Jews React to Hitler’s Rise to Power]( Private letters to foreign relatives paint a harrowing picture of warnings largely unheeded [Read This]( [Smallimage]( World / Amos N. Guiora [‘Kristallnacht’: The Legal Status of the Bystander]( Germans stood by as Jewish businesses and synagogues were burned, tens of thousands of Jews were arrested, and nearly a hundred were killed. Shouldn’t doing nothing about it be criminal? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Film / J. Hoberman [Actress Hedy Lamarr, the Real-Life Jewish Wonder Woman Whose Inventions Led to WiFi and GPS]( She would have turned 104 today [Read This]( [newsletter-the-scroll.gif] [Smallimage]( [To Be a German Jew in 1938 Was to Live in Disbelief]( A new digital exhibit, the 1938 Projekt, catalogues the final days of European Jewry and shows how easy it is to become inured to the progression of a deteriorating situation [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Enough Is Enough: Alyssa Milano Drops Support for Women’s March]( Unless the Women’s March can live up to its own ideals it will destroy itself with hate [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Parsha in Progress on the Story of Jacob and Esau]( On the ‘Parsha in Progress’ podcast, Abby and Rabbi Dov discuss the trickery and deceptions in this week’s Torah portion [Read This]( ADVERTISEMENT [Ad]( [Visit Tablet]( This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend](