Tom Teicholz
By Tom Teicholz
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Culture How Jewish exiles from Vienna remade Hollywood in their image
When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened earlier this year, it faced criticism for neglecting the foundational role American Jewish immigrants played in the movie industry. Its recent symposium and screening series, “Vienna in Hollywood,” planned long in advance of the opening, helped set the record straight. It highlighted the contributions of the European…
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News An L.A. museum puts the saga of Soviet Jewry on display
In the dark days of the Cold War, photographer Bill Aron, the son of a Russian émigré to Philadelphia, traveled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Leningrad, and Minsk, he took portraits of refuseniks— Soviet Jews who were demanding their freedom— as well as photographs of the Jewish synagogues and those worshipping there. Starting Nov….
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Culture When Pancho Villa attacked the U.S. in 1916, he was after the head of this Jewish merchant
When Pancho Villa and his troops raided Columbus, New Mexico in 1916—one of the only times in the 20th century that a foreign army ever invaded the continental United States— the famous Mexican revolutionary had only one goal: to bring back the head of a Lithuanian-born Jewish merchant named Sam Ravel. Villa’s men ransacked the…
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Life My psychiatrist committed suicide. Here’s what I wish I’d said.
This week my shrink committed suicide. My psychiatrist had left a few voicemails for me about upcoming appointments or regarding medicine refills. Our current schedule was such that we only saw each other once every three months now. Last Friday, my doctor called me. I took the call. He was calling, he said, because he…
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Community ‘I want to leave home less and less.’
As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I’ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don’t want the quarantine to end. Outside my home’s bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious…
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Opinion No, I haven’t read all of Proust. Fighting the coronavirus humble brag
David Hockney has painted 10 new iPad works. Barbra Streisand is working on her memoir. On Instragram people are baking bread and working out. Friends are calling to say that they’ve Marie-Kondo’d their homes. And all their getting-things-done is stressing me out. What this is is an epidemic of humble brags. People are knitting and…
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Opinion Why are we so obsessed with John Demjanjuk?
On Tuesday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a photo of Sobibor guards that purports to reveal Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk in a guard uniform at the Sobibor Death Camp. German historian Martin Clippers said the museum used the German police to conduct a biometric examination to affirm it was Demjanjuk. I have seen…
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