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Wahed’s experience was nearly universal among Arab Jews. The rise of Arab nationalism in the mid-20th century was accompanied by virulent anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Many Arab leaders openly supported the genocide carried out by the Nazis. Hajj Amin al-Husayni, a Palestinian nationalist leader and the Mufti of Jerusalem, went to Berlin in 1941 and asked Hitler to “resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries in the same way as the problem was resolved in the Axis Countries...
...this installment--which begins with the late 18th century--the Napoleonic wars and the Romantic era are about changing notions of liberty and nature; the Victorian era, about emerging concepts of gender and family life; colonialism, about the hubris of liberal humanism. The last hour neatly encapsulates the entire 20th century by comparing Winston Churchill and George Orwell and the very different ways the aristocrat and the socialist championed freedom...
DIED. MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, 100, father of Mexican photography who, along with painters Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, helped lead Mexico's cultural renaissance in the early 20th century; in Mexico City...
That jibed nicely with 20th century liberal social theory: violence, crime and poverty were not the fault of the violent, the lawless and the poor but of society. Improve living conditions and you will cure the problems. Even mental illness and homosexuality were the result of family dynamics, went this line of reasoning. These notions, of course, flew in the face of everything conservatives held dear--the idea that the lower classes were inherently stupid and lazy, for example, and that rehabilitating lawbreakers was an exercise in futility--which may have been part of their appeal...
...Other Generation, was dropped), and more historical context was added. "It was an opportunity," says Hwang, "to do my own story about Chinese immigration and Americanization as seen through the eyes of Asians, but to do it in collaboration with the two greatest musical artists of the 20th century...