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Jul 6, 202212 min read
Arthur H. Jaffe: The Jewish “Professor”
When, in his novel The Crusaders (1948), the German writer Stefan Heym depicted the moral complexities of the soldiers who served in...
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Jun 23, 202215 min read
Hans A. Pawlak [Pawley]: Ambassador of the Arts
In June 1938 the Iowa City Daily Iowan columnist Merle Miller named a young man whom, he said, was “Headed Upward”: Hans Pawlak — because...
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Jun 2, 202213 min read
The Classified Case of the Pro Wrestler Who Helped Beat the Nazis: Man Mountain Dean
Man Mountain Dean was Hulk Hogan before Hulk Hogan. He leapt to the big screen before it was the sporting standard. And for his final...
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Jun 2, 202218 min read
Daniel T. Skinner: Black in America
Daniel T. Skinner was a Black student/scholar who benefited from a white and integrated American education system even as he struggled to...
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May 20, 202218 min read
Herbert Murez: An Independent Thinker
When, as a boy growing up in Vienna, Herbert Murez first read Karl May’s popular novels about the American wild west and the friendship...
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May 19, 202234 min read
Albert G. Rosenberg:Living in the Shadow of Buchenwald
Of the hundreds of German Jews who fled Hitler’s Germany and then joined the American army to serve in its defeat, Albert G. Rosenberg,...
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