Jews have suffered antisemitism, persecution and violence for more than three and half millennia. They have displayed remarkable resilience in regions across the world through out their history. A study of the historic experience of the Jews offers rare insights into understanding the roots of racist and religious hatred and how to defeat them. This page studies and analyzes the historic experience of the Jews for understanding and defeating every shade of hatred. The study of Holocaust is a a textbook case of how primordial violent instincts interact with political crime and social decadence to engender horrific tragedies of hate and violence. It remains the most tragic and atrocious crime and breach of peace in the Modern World History. It offers some valuable lessons in the way crime builds up in the modern age and leads to disasters of gruesome proportions. This page discusses the subjects of war, peace, pluralism and international and interfaith harmony with a reference to the historic Jewish experiences and the Holocaust. It draws on the subjects of anti-semitism, racism and xenophobia borne out of diverse sociological roots. It explores strategies for dealing with these destructive trends in the light of lessons drawn from the experience of the Holocaust.
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This opinion piece offers some very interesting insights into the subject of lessons that should be learnt from a wholesome study of the Holocaust;
