What does it mean to \”resist history\”? What is \”historicism,\” and why would there be \”discontents\” toward historicism in German Jewish thought, or in any intellectual society?
Czestochowa is known around the world as the site of the Jasna Góra Monastery, a pilgrimage place for Poles and other Catholics who flock there to see the famous painting of the Black Madonna.
Joan Nestle is one of many Jewish lesbian writers with work catalogued at ONE, an archive similar to New York\’s Lesbian Herstory Archive, which Nestle co-founded in 1973.
The fact that \”The Passion\” isn\’t anti-Semitic doesn\’t make it an effective piece of filmmaking. The bad news is that Gibson\’s motion picture manages to be sadistically violent and somewhat boring at the same time.
\”Homebody/Kabul\” is very much about people trying to erase their pasts through encounters with those who are different from them. Whether British or Afghan, Christian or Muslim, all the characters have a history created by colonialism that informs their present struggles.
Controversy over \”The Passion\” has swept through Jewish leadership circles, with the yet-to-be released film generating a discomfort and fear not found in the typical, sometimes difficult conversations that Jews have with non-Jews over contentious issues such as Israel.
To what extent do we (and would we) internalize the essence of the Torah?
What better place to visit as civilization teetered at the brink than the repository of much of civilization\’s bounty?
In one of the most complex legal battles in the annals of Holocaust restitution, centering on the return of art looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners, E. Randol Schoenberg is stationed on the front lines.
From his posts at the European Union and the Commerce, Treasury and State departments, Stuart Eizenstat was the administration\’s \”point man\” on Holocaust restitution, with a unique portfolio to pursue the assets that were looted from Nazi victims.
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