This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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The Schmooze Gershom Scholem’s Brother
Many years ago, while researching German supporters of Holocaust reparations, I went in search of information on the social-democratic politician Kurt Schumacher. I found what I was looking for, but right next to Schumacher’s listing in an encyclopedia was a surprise: “Scholem, Werner, * 29.12.1895 Berlin, † 17.7.1940 KZ Buchenwald; konfessionslos.” It was Gershom Scholem’s…
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The Schmooze Cameri Theater to Receive Unclaimed Holocaust Assets
Crossposted from Haaretz The company charged with reinstating the heirs of Holocaust victims who had assets in Israel will provide a large chunk of its funding this year to the Cameri Theater. The Company for Location and Restitution said that it will distribute a total of NIS 5 million this year for Holocaust commemoration and…
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The Schmooze Theresienstadt Drama Keeps the Evil Underneath
“What did you expect? Walking skeletons in striped pajamas and yellow stars?” says the Nazi Commandant to his Red Cross visitors in dramatist Juan Mayorga’s haunting play “Way to Heaven” (“Himmelweg”), now playing at the Repertorio Espanol-Gramercy Arts Theater through January 27. Well, yes, that was exactly what I expected, knowing that the play’s central…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Chinese Animation Takes On the Holocaust
With stadium seating and the scent of fresh popcorn in the air, the November 21 screening of “A Jewish Girl in Shanghai” could have taken place in any shopping mall cinema in the world. But there was nothing ordinary about the film itself, which is China’s first homegrown Jewish movie, and an animated one at…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Adam Sandler Becomes a Valet; Alfred Kazin in His Journals
Is Adam Sandler’s next movie going to be about parking cars? Russian Jewish oligarch Roman Abramovich needs an entire island to house his art collection. Read an exerpt of Alfred Kazin’s journals, to be published this spring by Yale University Press. Michael Chabon has been elected director of The MacDowell Colony. How enigmatic Israeli music…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Weimar Cinema Beyond Caligari
“Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares,” running at MoMA until March 7, 2011, is billed as the largest-ever retrospective of German cinema from between the Wars to be shown in the United States. The era’s defining cinematic style, expressionism, is well-represented in dozens of offerings, giving a healthy dose of the atmospheric, disturbing and downright…
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Books Not a Historical Record
Earlier this week, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel and discussed whether anything new can be said about the Holocaust. She is the author of “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book…
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Books Everything We Need to Know
On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on…
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