admin | January 14, 2020
Polands president has pulled out of an event in Israel to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz after being told he would not be allowed to speak at the event, but Russias president, Vladimir Putin, would.
admin | January 14, 2020
The protagonist of The German House is a court interpreter The German House. By Annette Hess.
admin | January 14, 2020
This article was featured in One Great Story, New Yorks reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Irony, declared dead after 9/11, is alive and kicking in Trumps America
admin | January 8, 2020
Sir, It is rather perplexing that after the runaway success of his work of fiction based in a Nazi concentration camp, John Boyne feels compelled to sound a warning about the recent spate of publications of which his is in the same category (Avoid John Boynes Holocaust novel, Auschwitz Museum advises Twitter spat follows authors criticism of proliferation of books with Auschwitz in title , News, January 5th). The particular difficulty with Holocaust fiction falls on a number of fronts. It competes with first-hand testimonies that, in the case of Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, Viktor Klemperer, Anne Frank and others, represent exceptional literature in its own right.
admin | December 17, 2019
Police have identified one of the dead suspects in a shootout at a kosher market in Jersey City asDavid Anderson, who reportedly is a former member of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
admin | December 17, 2019
What young Malaysians need to learn from Germany is to learn from history, says the German Ambassador to Malaysia.
admin | December 11, 2019
A Polish art historian and curator who commissioned a memorial to victims of the anti-Jewish pogroms is being sued for defamation by an incoming member of parliament. After Tomasz Kitliski commissioned the work,titled Judenfrei by the artist Dorota Nieznalska,for the Open City Festival in Lublin, the regions far-rightnationalist governor Przemysaw Czarnek demanded its removal because he considered it anti-Polish.Kitliski defied the order
admin | December 11, 2019
Cheers, bravos, and five curtain calls greeted the shattering finale to Mieczysaw Weinbergs Piano Trio in A minor: a work written in Moscow in 1945 and performed in late October of this year at Londons Wigmore Hall as the climax of an entire day devoted to Weinbergs chamber music. The great Polish-Soviet Jewish composer was born 100 years ago, on December 8, 1919, and his centenary year has seen numerous performances by important artists in major venues as well as conferences and books devoted to his work
admin | December 7, 2019
Facebook has come under fire this week after a hoax story about women being abducted in white vans went viral on its platform. The sites algorithms are thought to have perpetuated the circulation of the story. The story resulted in a TV appearance on Monday by Baltimores mayor, Jack Young, who warned citizens that the white vans are abducting women for sex trafficking and selling their body parts, even though the claims have not been substantiated.
admin | December 4, 2019
Where are you, American viewer, likely to have met the stentorian English comic actor Matt Berry, whose Toast of London comes to stateside cable Wednesday on IFC? Currently, Berry plays an English vampire on Staten Island in the FX vampire mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, developed by Jemaine Clement from his film of the same name, and is the voice of Prince Merkimer, man and pig, in Matt Groenings Netflix animated fantasy Disenchantment
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