Avner Shapira
By Avner Shapira
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The Schmooze Mothers in War at Rehovot Women’s Film Festival
Crossposted from Haaretz “How handsome he will be in uniform,” gushes Nina, the Polish mother at the center of the film “Beyond the Steppes,” about her infant son. “He will be the most handsome officer, like his father,” she adds to her girlfriend. The statement is not uttered in the idyll of peace but rather…
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The Schmooze Cultural Cross-Pollination in Wroclaw, Poland
Crossposted from Haaretz The three bronze dwarf sculptures that greet visitors to the museum of the city of Wroclaw, Poland are a relatively new reminder of the city’s turbulent history. If the dwarf statues scattered across the city perpetuate the Orange Alternative opposition movement that was founded there in the 1980s and daubed graffiti of…
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