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Addressing a group of about 50 students at a Harvard Jewish Law Students Association brunch in Pound Hall, the prominent legal scholar compared the parody to the work of Holocaust revisionists...
...Hitler actually began to carry out that program and in going to war with the Soviet Union also put into effect his "final solution to the Jewish problem," the extermination of European Jewry. While Stalin had more people put to death than Hitler did, Bullock maintains the Nazi Holocaust is unique because "mass murder became not an instrument but an end in itself...
ETHICS What kind of people rescued Jews during the Holocaust...
...rescuers have not escaped controversy. Their very existence has been denied by some Jews who feared that the horror of the Holocaust might be whitewashed by acknowledging their presence. On the other hand, some rescuers have received hate mail and death threats for their long-ago roles in sheltering Jews. Yet Block notes that most people are strongly receptive to the rescuers' stories. "There is a hunger for examples of goodness," she says. "People want to find out that we can learn from goodness and not from evil...
...Fire, is at Lincoln Center after a sold-out run at the smaller Playwrights Horizons. Structurally, the problems are the opposite of the Korder play's. The first half, about a family dispute over a publishing empire, surges with believable life. The second half, about the clan's Holocaust-scarred patriarch, clanks with calculation...