| | Attack prompts Israeli outrage, muted Palestinian response Plus Gross sentenced in Cuba, and more in the news The National Book Critics Circle and Jewish Book Council's fêtes  | |  Fifty years ago, Adolf Eichmann was tried for war crimes. In a new book from Nextbook Press, historian Deborah E. Lipstadt examines the proceedings that changed the way we think about genocide. When Adolf Eichmann, the notorious Nazi many hold responsible for the Final Solution, went on trial in Jerusalem 50 years ago, the proceedings riveted people around the world. Eichmann, who'd been captured by Israeli agents a year earlier in Argentina, was being prosecuted in a country whose existence was in part due to his crimes. The trial re-focused attention on one of the century's greatest horrors and drew criticism for the prosecutor's decision to have survivors testify about their traumas. Such testimony was seen by many as distracting from facts and playing on emotions; it would also force victims to relive the brutality they'd experienced in the Holocaust. More  | In this week's "Tell Me," Tablet Magazine's illustrated question-and-answer column, we learn of a would-be astronaut who grows disenchanted with the stars More |  | Italian sojourns: from medieval kabbalists to 20th-century refugees More | | | | |
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