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...different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically, the trial judge said, for following the laws of his country rather than asserting his conscience. Said Judge Theodor Seidel: "Not everything that is legal is right...
...When Theodor Adorno read Celan's poem, he proclaimed that "After Auschwitz, poetry is barbaric." The problem, he felt, was that it was impossible to talk about the Holocaust without depriving it of its meaning, its force, its incomprehensibility. But he also knew it was impossible not to talk about the Holocaust and that doing so was to side with those who did nothing to stop it, with the people who claimed to have no idea of the camps just over the hill...
...asked Tarek who had made that a Zionist objective. He named Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism. Now, I have read a lot of Herzl, and I just couldn't think of where he says such a thing. Herzl's main political tract, The Jewish State, is mostly about why Jews cannot remain in the Diaspora. Herzl discusses several possible sites for a Jewish state without even mentioning the subject of prior inhabitants, much less advocating their removal. (See, for example, pages 95-96 in the Dover edition...
...feminism. And SAS does not have the right to define Zionism. Zionism is a movement for Jewish national liberation. And when it comes to defining exactly what Zionism is or will be, Tarek's favorite Zionist authority has this to say: "This is a private affair for Jews alone." (Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, page...
...year-old wrote children's favorites such as Green Eggs and Ham How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat. Seuss--whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel--died at home with his family...