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This fear is so complete, he said, that it would be "futile" to seek Southern white support for the civil rights movement. He is, to Americus whites, "a New York atheist Communist Jew...
...when she was 25, and though she assigned them to her grandmother, they were her words. Each of the 80 paintings in her diary of despair echoes them-first with innocent uncertainty, then with primitive clarity, finally with resignation. Older than Anne Frank but, like her, a German, a Jew, and doomed to die, she recounts her life as a string of fatal instants that flash past like dagger thrusts...
...woman leapt out of a window) and her grandfather's death, she was left alone. She fell in love. Her Jewish fiance had a forged identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...
Modigliani's Legacy. The macchiaioli were too far from the mainstream of modern art to be noticed at once. But their pupils made good. One who studied under Fattori was an Italian Jew from Leghorn named Amedeo Modigliani. Although he is best recalled for his expressionistic nudes, there was a time when Modigliani painted fleeting visions of the unpopulated flowery banks of Tuscany with a matchless skill that paid homage to his teacher. Thus Tuscan impressionism, so eagerly seeking to become a part of European art, fed Paris its best pupils, and Italian impressionism became, until now, a forgotten...
...Guide of the Perplexed, written in Arabic and published in 1190, was an attempt to resolve the intellectual difficulties of Jews confronted with the work of Islamic sages, who had discovered Aristotle and grafted his ideas onto the prevailing Neoplatonism of the age. This synthesis seemed so reasonable that the devout Jew often found himself, said Maimonides, "in a state of perplexity and confusion." Should he "follow his intellect," renouncing what he knew from Scripture, the foundation of the Law? "Or he should hold fast to Scripture, and not let himself be drawn on together with his intellect...