Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of Miller's recent work, Broken Glass treats the long-but feebly-standing marriage bewteen a Jewish couple in 1938 Brooklyn. The wife, Sylvia (Tegan Shohet '01), has psychosomatic paralysis of the legs after seeing daily newspaper photographs of Nazi humiliation of Jews. Husband Phillip (Jesse Kellerman '01) is an anxious, fundamentally confused individual submerged in a WASP business; he approaches any given situation with bullish anxiety...
Feliciano's investigation of the meticulously recorded Nazi art inventories and France's National Museum archives unearthed some seemingly juicy facts, most notably that of the 60,000 art objects looted from the French by the Nazis during the war, 2,000 were still scattered throughout various French museums. To whom did these objects belong? Why hadn't the French government made greater efforts to locate their rightful owners? Was France stymieing efforts to recover lost...
...Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art" was recently published by BasicBooks (despite having been rejected by 30 previous publishers prior to the book's success in France), and The New York Times Arts section featured Feliciano last week in an article titled, "A Bulldog on the Heels of Lost Nazi Loot". But how scandalous were Feliciano's findings? Should the art world really be up in arms about Nazi looted art that is still in French museums? As it turns out, the French have behaved quite responsibly under the circumstances. The intrepid...
After hearing Feliciano speak at the Village Voice bookstore this summer, I was intrigued. It seemed likely that the same country which housed the Vichy regime and waited 50 years before apologizing for its dubious wartime behavior could well have been cagey in its dealings with Nazi-looted...
After enduring what Wu says is comparable to the tortures of Nazi concentration camps for' years, he was freed with Deng Xioping's rise to power...