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Holocaust

Film Review: “The Survivor” – (Living in the Past, Looking to the Future)

Ben Foster shines in Barry Levinson’s grim tale of love, loss, and hope.

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Barry Levinson, Ben Foster, Ed Symkus, HBO Max, Holocaust, The Survivor

Television Review: “The Survivor” — What Price Survival?

The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: Auschwitz, Barry Levinson, Ben Foster, Holocaust, Jewish survivors, Nazi, Sonderkommandos, The Survivor

Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, Perfectly

This is a great work, more linear than Tom Stoppard’s earlier dramas, yet filled with such intelligence and compassion that it will be read and seen for years and years and, perhaps, over time be regarded as his richest, most haunting play.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Holocaust, Leopoldstadt, tom-stoppard

Book Review: The Books of András Koerner — Acts of Wondrous Remembrance

Writer András Koerner has dedicated himself, lovingly and brilliantly, to assiduously reconstruct the lives of ordinary Jews in Hungary before the Shoah.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: András Koerner’, cookbook, Holocaust, Hungary, Jewish Cuisine in Hungary, Jews, Shoah, Susan Miron

Film Review: “The Painted Bird” — A Memorable Vision of the Worst That Can Be Imagined

The Painted Bird is a coming-of-age story populated by the worst of humankind.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Holocaust, Jerzy Kosiński, Petr Kotlár, The Painted Bird, Václav Marhoul, World War II

Book Review: “Franci’s War” — A Very Relevant Holocaust Memoir

Here we have the story of a young Czech woman who could not only take a piece of fabric and shape it into a gorgeous dress, but could also take her experiences during WWII and shape them into a compelling memoir.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Woman’s Story of Survival, Franci Rabinek Epstein, Franci’s War, Helen Epstein, Holocaust, memoir

Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time

Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alan Rosen, Holocaust, The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred

Book Review: “Hunting the Truth” — Models of Activism

Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Holocaust, Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

Remembrance: Aharon Appelfeld — A Displaced Writer of Displaced Fiction

“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Aharon Appelfeld, fiction, Holocaust, Israel

Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”

Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Holocaust, Jim Shepard, knopf, Menorah, Stephen Fine, The Book of Aron, The Menorah From the Bible to Modern Israel

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