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Department of History Colleague, Professor Tony Kushner, writes an important piece on the recent incident in Manchester for The Conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/synagogue-attack-the-manchester-i-know-by-antisemitism-researcher-and-mancunian-jew-266712<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of History Colleague, Professor Tony Kushner, writes an important piece on the recent incident in Manchester for The Conversation: https:\/\/theconversation.com\/synagogue-attack-the-manchester-i-know-by-antisemitism-researcher-and-mancunian-jew-266712<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-archive","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9DnLX-dK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":494,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/02\/18\/holocaust-memorial-day-27-january-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":0},"title":"Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2020","author":"Jonathan Hunt","date":"18th February 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2020 By Dr George Gilbert It is more or less impossible to fully understand the course of the twentieth century without reference to the Holocaust. 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