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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: “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” — Innovative History of a Female Anti-Nazi Resistance Leader

What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Helen Epstein, hitler, Mildred  Fish Harnack, Nazi, Rebecca Donner. culture vulture

Film Review: In Defense of “Woman in Gold”

Woman in Gold has novelty going for it — it is a film that depicts a woman’s passionate relationship to a piece of art.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Art recovery, Austria, Culture Vulture, Helen Mirren, Nazi, Ryan Reynolds, Simon Curtis, Women in Gold

Book Review: “The Zone of Interest” — Not Quite Interesting Enough

Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Martin Amis, Matt Hanson, Nazi, The Zone of Interest, World War II

Fuse Film Review: The Maine International Film Festival, Bar Harbor Edition

Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: basketball, documentary, Extending the Play, Nazi, Paul Dervis, Peter Logue, Reel Pizza Cinerama, The Maine International Film Festival, The Search for the White Rose

Film Review: “Portrait of Wally” — Art As ‘Holocaust Loot’

“Portrait of Wally” makes for a wonderfully engaging documentary about art and postwar intrigue with stakes on both a personal and global scale.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Andrew Shea, documentary, Egon Schiele, Nazi, Portrait of Wally

Book Commentary: The Emperor of Lies = The Emperor’s New Clothes?

Should we fictionalize the Holocaust? This is not only a literary question, but a moral one as well, issues raised by the publication of the translation of “The Emperor of Lies,” a novel about the ways in which the Jews in the Lodz ghetto struggled to survive the Nazis.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Holocaust, Jewish, Nazi, Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies

Short Fuse: Tarantino’s Nazi-killing Cotton Candy

By Harvey Blume Let me tell you why I heartily dislike and contemn Quentin Tarantino’s “The Inglorious Basterds.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Jews, Nazi, Quentin Tarantino, Short Fuse, the Holocaust, The inglorious Basterds

Being Where?

Some of the best moments of my visit to documenta XII I spent in bed. Even though Loekie and I had decided this time not to try to see everything and to spend as much time on a display as we wanted, and even though we stuck to this strategy and enjoyed the exhibition all […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Arnold-Bode, Dirk-schwarze, Documenta-VII, Harald-Kimpel, Nazi, Okwui-Enwezor, roger-buergel, Rudi-Fuch, ruth-noack, Schwartzlist, Visual Arts

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