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...shake their heads and wag their fingers at the Berlusconisti? Of course they should, but postmodern man should also rediscover the art of the elegant rejoinder. Benjamin Disraeli, on the receiving end of an anti-Semitic slur in the British Parliament, had this to say: "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon." Thank God, anti-Semitic attacks are no longer acceptable discourse in Europe. When we really want to clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare...
...Silvano, Lawson sips Gavi di Gavi while chomping on duck, branzino and brains. "I'm like a Chinese Jew," she says. "I love brains and sweetbreads and all that stuff." At the next table, fellow Brit Tim Curry spots Lawson and offers a seated bow. "I have them all!" he screams, presumably about her books. But it's far too loud to hear anything. Lawson suggests we get dessert...
...excavates are buried in the Czech national psyche; the collision of rock 'n' roll and communism in 1950s Czechoslovakia in Big Beat, his debut feature. Czechs collaborating with Nazis in his Oscar-nominated Divided We Fall. As the protagonist of that movie, a Czech whose family hides a Jew, puts it: "You wouldn't believe what abnormal times do to normal people." "I like to explore national embarrassments," says Hrebejk. "I don't condemn them, but they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released internationally, Hrebejk sets out to excavate the shameless opportunism...
...Iraq. "The tyranny of Saddam Hussein belongs to another century," Lévy says. "The debate of the next century will be over militant Islam." His guide into this netherworld was Pearl, whom he calls a "posthumous friend" and to whom he ascribes many of his own characteristics: "A Jew of the left, a progressive ... a friend of the uncounted, the universal orphan, the disinherited." Pearl, Lévy says, was a firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda...
...1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations: he was a Jew curious about Islamic culture who had moved beyond condemnation. In this Manichaeistic epoch, some people can't stand such figures and want to eliminate them." Lévy is devoted to keeping Pearl's legacy of understanding alive, but suggests that it won't happen until the West takes a fuller...