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...over the next decades - and return them to their rightful owners. But some art slipped past Valland's gimlet eye; the Nazis amassed so much loot that they had to set up other clearing houses to process the flood of paintings and objects, many of which belonged to Jewish families killed in the Holocaust. Some of the art changed hands many times; Nazis collected and traded "degenerate" art - Picasso and the Impressionists - for earlier works they deemed more "Aryan...
...exhibitions also reveal how much Hitler loathed the Rothschilds, the famous Jewish family of financiers and art collectors. An ex-Gestapo officer and biographer, Hansjürgen Koehler, has claimed that Hitler's grandmother once worked as a maid for the Vienna branch of the family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...
...17th time it happens, it becomes normal,” he says. “This is how things that you thought were absurd become normal.”The exhibit, which opened last Saturday at Harvard Hillel and is sponsored and hosted by the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), portrays the daily life of Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied Palestinian territories.On Saturday, a crowd of nearly 200 moved from table to table, viewing each collection of photographs portraying a different facet of Israeli military life.With the exhibit running over the next two weeks, contention has risen...
...professors said that they also corresponded with Jewish studies professor Jay M. Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed implementation committee, throughout the approval process...
...take on a period piece in The Other Boleyn Girl. What is your favorite time in history? -Nikki Barrett, York, PA.I'm really interested in 1920s Berlin. I read this great book by Amos Elon called The Pity of It All. It's about Jewish life in Berlin right before the war. The whole environment of the salons and all this culture-there was a real openness and freedom. It's scary to think the response to that was this incredible fascism...