Word: holocaust
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...site. Even as soldiers and volunteers carried on the grim process of exhuming and then burying the dead, the disaster was becoming fixed as a terrible memory for the people of the valley. Roghieh Salari was one of several village women who gave birth shortly after the holocaust. The name of her newborn son: Zelzelleh (Earthquake...
Samuel Pisar, who is a naturalized American living in Paris and the widely acclaimed author of Coexistence and Commerce, is perhaps the paradigm of the existential, communal kind of Jew. Of the 900 students in his Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers...
...CABARET," Berlin on the crumbling brink of the Third Reich and Hitler's holocaust is the historical background York was to blend with his unfortunately recurrent role of the young, innocent, effete British student-scholar. "For background I read a book on the rise of Hitler. What I felt about my role? In 'Cabaret' I tried to preserve the sense of 'I am a Camera' you also find in Isherwood's Berlin Stories." York isn't bullshitting. either, when he cites Isherwood. He means that he has in fact read the stories. "In other words, I was involved in what...
...mostly vain attempt to lend substance to these goings-on, there is a subplot involving a romance between a rich Jewish beauty and an impover ished gigolo who is masquerading as an Aryan. There are also solemn but su perficial references to Nazis and inti mations of the holocaust to come...
...lived off the soil in a land of his own, the land of his ancestors, not afraid to fight for his existence. There is a revealing anecdote widespread in Israel about a young Israeli child who when told by his father about the horrors of the Holocaust, asked incredulously, "But why didn't the Jews kill the Nazis with their Uzzis? (submachine guns)" If at times the Israelis seem abrupt, almost rude to the do-gooders who would advise them on how to wage their peace or their war, it is because they are not at all the same Jews...