Saturday, April 04, 2015

Soldiers at Seders During WWII – Tablet Magazine

For this Passover Holiday I found this one while surfing the net.................

Most interesting article, indeed.

According to the lively website Jews in Green, Jews served in WWII in numbers much higher than our representation in the general population; by someestimates, 4 to 5 percent of U.S. soldiers were Jews at a time when we constituted less than 2 percent of the population. And the significance of fighting for others’ liberty during their own celebration of freedom clearly wasn’t lost on them.

Seder on the U.S.S. Astoria in the Pacific, 1945. (Courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History)
The full story is at the link below.
Soldiers at Seders During WWII – Tablet Magazine

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