Word: holocaustal
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...million pebbles will be encased in rectangular plexiglass columns, standing on a map of Eastern Europe and enclosed by barbed wire. The pebbles in each column will represent the number of Jews slaughtered in each East European country by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The whole scene will be displayed during Brandeis University's Holocaust Rememberance Week, April 19 to 25, in an area between Brandeis' library and student center...
That process could have been the coup de grace for Yiddish, a fusion of German, Hebrew and Slavic languages that was the lingua franca of Ashkenazic Jews for most of the past millennium. In this century the language had already suffered the cataclysm of the Holocaust as well as the adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal...
...putting together a collection of essays, Bettelheim, 86, has created a kind of crypto-autobiography, because he keeps reverting to the elements that have established patterns in his life: psychoanalysis, art, children (he has specialized in treating autistic children at the University of Chicago) and the Holocaust. Several of those patterns combine in his moving account of Janusz Korczak, who headed the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, where a children's court enforced the children's rules. Despite friends' efforts to rescue him, Korczak insisted on staying with his children even as he walked hand in hand with them onto...
CINEMA: A holiday Holocaust from Hollywood...
...struggle of the Palestinians to have a Palestinian state," implicitly backing the two-year-old intifadeh. He spoke of "worrisome parallels" between conditions in the Israeli-occupied territories and South Africa's black townships. And he outraged Jewish sensibilities by urging Israelis to forgive those responsible for the Holocaust. Most Israeli officials declined to meet with Tutu, accusing him of harboring anti-Jewish prejudices. Protestors scrawled "black Nazi pig" on the wall of the church where Tutu was staying. Said the Archbishop: "If I am accused of being antiSemitic, tough luck...