Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
Category: Jews and Judaism
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Lufthansa Fined $4 Million for Stopping Jewish Passengers From Boarding Plane
The Transportation Department handed out a record fine after the airline prevented 128 travelers from making a connecting flight in 2022.
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CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates
Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.
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Michael Lerner, 81, Is Dead; Founder of a Combative Jewish Magazine
His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.
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Walter Arlen, Holocaust Refugee and Belated Composer, Is Dead at 103
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
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Overlooked No More: Otto Lucas, ‘God in the Hat World’
His designs made it onto the covers of fashion magazines and onto the heads of celebrities like Greta Garbo. His business closed after he died in a plane crash.
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Choosing Love and Marriage During the Holocaust
Natalie Mandelbaum, a coordinator and researcher of Yad Vashem’s online photo exhibit “Weddings During the Holocaust,” describes highlighting 11 Jewish couples who married during that perilous time.
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Margot Friedländer, 102-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Gets a Vogue Cover
Vogue Germany’s latest cover star, 102-year-old Margot Friedländer, is a meaningful subject, said Anna Wintour.
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Amid Outcry, Academy Museum to Revise Exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish Roots
When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.
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A Celebration of Frank London’s Music Will Be Missing One Thing: Him
The trumpeter, composer and bandleader who helped revitalize klezmer is battling cancer. But his work hasn’t slowed, and his longtime associates are rallying around him.