Ben Quinn
By Ben Quinn
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News Jerusalem Quartet Draws Discordant Note in Britain
When well-organized hecklers disrupted a recent London performance by the Jerusalem Quartet, the protest resonated far beyond Wigmore Hall, the city’s famous and much loved lunchtime place of pilgrimage for music lovers seeking a break from the hubbub of central London. Not only did the disturbance cause the BBC to pull the plug on its…
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Culture Red Devils
UTOPIA OR AUSCHWITZ: GERMANY’S 1968 GENERATION AND THE HOLOCAUST By Hans Kundnani Columbia University Press, 374 Pages, $27.50 One morning in November 1969, a homemade bomb was discovered inside a Berlin Jewish community center, only a day after the center hosted a commemoration of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms. At first glance, circumstances suggested neo-Nazis were…
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News On the London Stage, New Depiction Of Fagin Revives an Old Stereotype
London — He is one of the most infamous antisemitic caricatures of all time, a devious hook-nosed villain rivaled in stereotypical notoriety by only Shakespeare’s Shylock. Fagin, the Jewish street thief immortalized in print by Charles Dickens, has once again made a triumphant return to the stage in a new production of “Oliver!” the musical…
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