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Germany: Jewish writer denied award over Gaza essay
The award ceremony for the Hannah Arendt Prize was delayed after the Heinrich Boll Foundation withdrew its affiliation over an essay written by its recipient, Masha Gessen, on Israel's brutal siege and assault on Gaza. The essay, titled 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust' and published by The New Yorker on 9 December, angered pro-Israel groups due to Gessen's comparison of Gaza to Eastern European Jewish Ghettos during the Second World War. The award is in memory of Hannah Arendt, a German-born Jewish writer and philosopher who escaped Nazi-dominated Europe for the US in 1941. The German Israeli Society in Bremen wrote that "we are particularly alienated by Masha Gessen'

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