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An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 3: Płaszów, A Camp in Its Afterlives

April 06, 2019 Leave a Comment

  Jason Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but some of his ongoing projects take on the complexities of memory and loss in Eastern Europe, particularly memory and loss related to the Holocaust. Francisco recently sat down

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An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 2: Memory, Remembrance, and Composition

February 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

Jason Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but some of his ongoing projects take on the complexities of memory and loss in Eastern Europe, particularly memory and loss related to the Holocaust.

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An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 1: Photographing the “Sacred” in “Alive and Destroyed”

January 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

  Jason Francisco received his MFA in Photography from Stanford University in 1998 and is presently an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. Professor Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but several of

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The Devil’s in the Details: The Krampus Conundrum

December 21, 2018 1 Comment

Madison Tarleton Accusations of blood libels and ritual murders only heightened suspicions that Jews were demonically possessed and were most evidently non-Christian beings, perhaps even sub-human.

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Jewish Umpires and Baseball Chapel

August 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
A baseball team's group prayer, February 19, 2012. Photo by Flickr user "arctic_whirlwind." Available via Flickr.

Rebecca T. Alpert On February 2, 2008, Murray Chass, a New York Times sports columnist, wrote an essay entitled, “Should a Clubhouse Be a Chapel?” He was writing in response to a phone call he received from Josh Miller, a minor league umpire who had recently been released by Major League Baseball. Baseball rules require that umpires who are not likely to be promoted to the majors serve no more than three years in AAA ball. While Miller was disappointed, he finally felt free to contact the press about a situation that had disturbed him deeply.

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