Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mendel, the sellout second film of the festival, takes place nearly 50 years and a continent away from Arik Sharon. The German Jews Aron and Bela Trotzig move with their children David and Mendel to Norway from Germany in 1954 in an effort to escape the lingering horror of the Holocaust. Mendel, born after the war ended and temporarily shielded from knowledge of the Holocaust by his parents, confronts a world where much remains incomprehensible and the past is a blank. His main concern becomes his struggle to decipher the story he has only half-heard in whispers his whole...
...race is Caucasian, but my ethnic heritage is a mix of Puerto Rican, Swiss, German and English. Should I join a club to learn about the ones with which I am least familiar? Should I learn about cultures that are not part of my ethnicity by attending, for example, Chinese Students Association meetings? Am I culturally deficient...
...proof of the overreaction surrounding "The Lost Museum" is that only one legitimate claim has resulted from the publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that remain in French museums should not be seen as a stain upon France's history...
...cookbook, in short, has come a long way from St. Louis, Mo., where the newly widowed Irma Rombauer, in the teeth of the Great Depression, assembled her recipes and those of her largely German-American friends. Whether the new Joy will win minds and hearts the way the old ones did remains a matter of intense interest to those involved. A lot is riding on this project, and as Irma's friends might have said, the proof is in the pudding. --Reported by Andrea Sachs/Cincinnati
...Manilow is not only writing the songs, he's helping to tell the stories as well. His new musical Harmony (with book and lyrics by his frequent collaborator Bruce Sussman), at California's La Jolla Playhouse, recounts the career of the Comedian Harmonists, a popular German singing group of the '20s and '30s--composed of Jews and non-Jews--that was disbanded by the Nazis. Manilow on Hitler's Germany? Why not? "The pop-music business doesn't want to work hard; it just wants a catchy melody," says the sentimental troubadour, whose string of pop-chart-topping melodies--Mandy...