And I Still See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews
Diane Arieff
November 13, 1997
Polish Jewry before the war is the subject of a powerfulphoto exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance
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The Swiss Spin
Tom Tugend
November 13, 1997
Has unremitting pressure on the Swiss government and its banks byAmerican Jewish organizations and supportive politicians becomecounterproductive, or will only constant prodding move the Swiss todo the right thing?
Unsolved Mysteries
Larry Derfner
October 16, 1997
Over the High Holidays, somebody scrawled Nazi swastikas and the epithets \”Cursed evildoers\” and \”Evildoers, you will die\” on the front door of the Reform movement\’s Har-El Congregation synagogue in midtown Jerusalem.This was only the latest act of vandalism against Har-El, Israel\’s oldest Reform synagogue, in recent months. Over the summer, someone smeared human excrement on the synagogue door. On two other occasions, somebody poured acid on the synagogue garden, turning the grass yellow. All these incidents took place when the building was closed.
The Sunflower
William Cutter
October 9, 1997
The story itself is a laconic autobiographical statement that not only describes Wiesenthal\’s experience as camp inmate, but joins that experience to an excruciating ethical question about forgiveness. Now that Simon Wiesenthal is a legend and an icon, his modest story seems larger, somehow, and the republication of the book is a kind of commandment to read it again.
21 Years Ago: Redemption, Hollywood Style
Sally Ogle Davis
October 9, 1997
Let me be direct and come to the point right off the mark:
\”Seven Years in Tibet,\” appropriately filmed in Argentina — whereold Nazis go to be rehabilitated or to die, whichever comes first –is a turgid piece of filmmaking and as dishonest as, well, \”TheDevil\’s Own,\” Brad Pitt\’s last outing on film.
The Years of Persecution
Tom Tugend
July 3, 1997
As the decades pass, why does the Holocaust retain, and even expand, its grip on the consciousness of the world and of its scholars, writers and filmmakers?
After the
Rob Eshman
May 22, 1997
The most astonishing account in Hector Feliciano\’s always-astonishing new nonfiction book, \”The Lost Museum\” (Basic Books), follows Adolf Hitler on a visit to the Paris Opera House on June 28, 1940, the Führer\’s first, and only, visit to the city.
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