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Lanzmann makes no attempt to indoctrinate or to educate; he wantsonly to encourage each story in ultra-realistic detail, to bring out the unimaginable on the faces and in the words of his subjects. In particular the Czech Jew Filip Muller, who survived Auschwitz as a member of the "special detail" assigned to clearing out the gas chambers after each use, is remarkably lucid and eloquent. White-haired, handsome and soft-spoken, Muller tells how the victims scrambled once the gas was turned on, what he encountered when it was turned off. His are some of the longest and most...
...allow the play to go on. They remained onstage for nearly three hours, engaging the audience in a spirited discussion of what some critics call the "garbage play." The protesters argued that staging the play, whose main character is an unscrupulous real estate speculator identified as "A., the Rich Jew," will revive anti-Jewish feelings in the country. Director Gunther Ruhle insisted that Fassbinder, a * well-known moviemaker, only intended to criticize modern anti-Semitism. Such purposes may seem elusive in a play in which one character says of the protagonist, "They forgot to gas him." The demonstrators, backed...
...Capa's future in Germany ended with the election of Hitler in 1933. As a leftist refugee, and even worse as a Jew, his physical safety was in danger every minute he stayed in Germany. He soon found his way to Paris where he again faced dire poverty. As Whelan points out in detail, Capa was broke most of his life. The need to make money was always paramount in Capa's mind even if he ended up wasting it away in food and wine...
...problem is this: By tradition, the rabbi provides a little wine to the baby to dull the pain. (Steiner, eh? Perhaps you remember that a briss is not always a Jew's earliest happy memory.) The kid will not be 21 for many years, so can we have a small exception? --A Loving Rabbi...
Born Simone Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father was an officer in the post-World War I French occupation force, she grew up in the affluent Paris suburb of Neuilly. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, her father, a Jew, fled to Britain to join Charles de Gaulle's Free French army. Simone remained in France with her family, adopting her mother's maiden name --Signoret--to escape detection by the Nazis, and worked as a secretary for the Paris daily Les Nouveaux Temps...