Out and About
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter January 5, 2012
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This month marks the 70th anniversary of the infamous Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis arrived at the Final Solution.
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Germany has a brand-new English-language Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Voice From Germany.
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Photographer Aaron Weiner (featured on The Arty Semite here) talks about “Cycles of Violence,” his photo-collage response to 9/11.
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The Brooklyn Museum displays early paintings by Eva Hesse, but leaves out their Jewish context.
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Film critic and Yiddish cinema expert J. Hoberman has been laid off from the Village Voice. Here are 10 of his lessons for writing great film criticism.
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The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw has bought Zbigniew Libera’s Lego model concentration camps.
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Edward Rothstein raves about the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Emma Lazarus exhibit.
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Daniel Johnson revisits the monumental impact of Vienna’s Jewish community.
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How psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich jumpstarted the Sexual Revolution.
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Can anything be learned from Josef Mengele’s skull?
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