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...Ultra-Orthodox Jews of both Sephardic and Ashkenazi origin have theological difficulties explaining the Holocaust, because it appears to challenge the notion that the Jews are God's chosen people. For the most part, they prefer not to talk about it, and on Israel's annual Shoah day - when the nation is called to observe two minutes of remembrance for those who died - the ultra-Orthodox go about their business even as the majority stop what they're doing and stand in silence. But it remains a cause of considerable discomfort for ultra-Orthodox theologians, not least because so many...
...least end in Kosovo, the place where the West finally found the will and the means to intervene effectively in a regional calamity. Inferno is a book with the weight and density of one of those great 20th century works of broken-hearted testimony, of the Holocaust documentary Shoah or the string quartets of Shostakovich. With 382 black-and-white pictures spread across oversize pages, it has the heft of a gravestone, which is not so different from what it is, a cenotaph for the last victims of the 20th century. What it tells us is that history...
Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet...
...child's reverence, the names Gary Cooper and Clark Gable is to hear a cordial peal of thunder from one Olympic peak to another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie-star chats. But it is worth every second if the viewer brings an imaginary glass of Chianti to this enthralling, poignant feast...
...hold on us that merely suggesting its limits as a model seems a sacrilege? Novick, a University of Chicago historian and a self-described secular Jew, is no Holocaust denier. But he is a ferocious chronicler of the way various agendas and accidents have conspired to make the Shoah ever more central to our consciousness. And he wonders whether this attention "is as desirable...as most people seem to think it is." It's a controversial thesis, made more so by the book's intensely polemical tone. Says James Young, a University of Massachusetts Holocaust expert who is advising...