From Phyllis Chesler, A Politically Incorrect Memoir Laden With Gossip And TMI
Chesler may be an unreliable narrator, but for those of us who’ve lived through the era, her gossipy tales have an undeniable appeal.
After the Nazis invaded, in May 1940, and government restrictions on Jews tightened, her parents relinquished her care to a non-Jewish family.
In Vichy France, The Nazi Era Viewed Up Close
“Fear has been resolved. Into acceptance, even attraction. The German has become a magician, who possesses the secret of order.”
For These Doomed Passengers, There Was No Refuge in Cuba
Passengers on board the St. Louis fleeing Nazi Germany discover both cultural displacement and loss in Armando Correa’s “The German Girl.”
Why Hollywood Used To Be Better For Women
In the 1950s, the culture — in Hollywood and elsewhere — turned increasingly hostile toward women.
Before Sondheim And Miranda, There Was Rodgers And Hammerstein
Both Rodgers and Hammerstein had wives named Dorothy, and both women were interior decorators.
Paul Goldberg’s Dizzying Plunge Into The Kingdom Of Uselessness
“If you read Trump with an open mind, he is like Albert Camus.”
A Devastating History Of Genocide — In One Ukrainian Town
When Poles and Ukrainians battled, Jews tended to be scapegoated by both sides.
A Family, Dispersed And Splintered By The Holocaust
Petrowskaja lost a maternal great-grandmother and great-aunt to the infamous shootings at Babi Yar,
Dara Horn Asks The Fundamental Questions Of Life — Eternal And Otherwise
“Horn manages to enmesh us in Rachel’s psychic torments — of being buffeted by history without the hope of an ending.”
