Culture
In this shattering film, the faustian allure of Nazism
Despite the fact that it’s an Academy Award-winning movie about the Holocaust, “Mephisto” is very good.
In Amsterdam, borne back ceaselessly into a Jewish past
“House on Endless Waters” is an intensely clever literary construction that never compromises readability.
How Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott identified with the Jews
Derek Walcott, who has died at the age of 87, empathized with the Jewish experience and enjoyed a close friendship with the poet Joseph Brodsky.
50 years later, ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ is a Holocaust film like no other
“The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” shows a different way to tell Shoah stories, by focusing on the world that came before calamity.
February 9: New Jersey: Peter Beinart in conversation with Jodi Rudoren
Please join Jodi Rudoren as she discusses with liberal columnist Peter Beinart whether peace is possible in Israel.
