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a house divided
It remains the most perplexing legacy of the modern age. How advanced, democratic, secular and ostensibly enlightened societies could be at the nevrological and seismic center from which the Holocaust was to arise. And with this context, Hannah Arendt continues … Continue reading
romance with terror
To acknowledge the power of the irrational. A kind of spiritual revolt of unhappy souls who in a negative sense become overwhelmed with the powers of ideology and terror, producing the perfect recipe for what Hannah Arendt defined as the … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Winslow Homer
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good men in a storm?…raising canaan
It was believed that secular Zionism of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century was conceived to offer something distinct from the assimilationist currents that the Enlightenment and secular humanism was conceptually formulated to bring about. It was a ruse, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Porter, Ben Hecht, Benjamin Halevi, Edwin Black, eichmann trial, Francisco Gil-White, Francois Genoud, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Haavara Agreement, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Joel Brand, Malchiel Greenwald, Meir Dagan, Meretz Party, Moshe Sharett, Norman Finkelstein, Rudolf Kastner, Rudolf Kasztner, Shinui Party, Tommy Lapid, uri avnery, Yair Lapid
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alchemy of “the other”
The ultra-orthodox in Israel desecrated the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial this past week, and though one cannot really condone the act, the graffiti extensive as it was, is an expression that the narrative of the holocaust has been appropriated by … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Doris Zinkstein, Edith Birkin, eichmann trial, Eric Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Hieronymous Bosch, Leslie Cole, Leslie Coles, Mary Kessell, Morris Kestleman, Norman Finkelstein, Roman Halter, Wen Jiabao, Wen Jiabo visits Auschwitz, Yad Vashem Museum defaced
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transfer agreements
Its the superficial liberal values; essentially reinforcing and continuing the template that was started in the 1930’s with the Transfer Agreement worked out with the early Zionists and the Nazis that brought out 70,000 of the richest German jews to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Arlozoroff transfer agreement, eichmann trial, Ezer Weizmann, Gideon Levy, Goldstone report, Hannah Arendt, Herzl, israel occupation, Israeli Apartheid Week, Jennifer Peyto, Konrad Adenauer, Martin Heidegger, Miko Peled, Moshe Zimmerman, paul schutzer, Rolf Vogel, The Six Day War, Tom Segev, Transfer Agreement Israel, Zionist movement
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the hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic bomb of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Kovner, Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur Dinter, Arthur Koestler, eichmann trial, Felix Nussbaum, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Singer, J.F. Blumenbach, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Martin Englander, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, rich cohen author, roman vishniac, roman vishniak, Theodor Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich
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willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood
Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Arkin, Balachovitz, Bielski Jewish partisans, Danny kaye, efraim halevy, eichmann trial, Frank Dimant, Freida Pinto, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Trumpeldor, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnabel Miral, Liev Schreiber, Louis Rukeyser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Ronen, Rula Jebreal, Shlomo Carlebach, Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky
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