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...such a main role in curricular review, it would be inconceivable that he had no other role,” said Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris...
...surprised there’s not more empathy in the Jewish community as a whole, given our history,” he says...
...neither concentration camps nor their Jewish victims appear in the series “After the War/Before the Wall: German Film 1945-1960,” which screens through the end of March at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA). Instead, the series shows an eclectic mix of films that range from escapist comedies to suspenseful thrillers...
...Lost Man, Lorre’s character is a serial murderer and a Nazi, but he does not kill on behalf of the Party, and his victims are not Jewish. The film engages a guilty history, but it is the guilt of a lone psychopath rather than the guilt of an entire nation. Lorre suggests that Dr. Rothe’s transformation from an upstanding doctor to a murderer is linked to the political climate of the time, but the politics in the film are driven by wartime espionage, not by anti-Semitism...
...Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally...