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Tag Archives: Elie Wiesel
political science
The basics behind anti-Zionism and the despotic regimes, puppet enterprises around and affiliated with it can be traced back to a visceral antipathy towards colonialism in general. Colonialism as a demonic entity and deeply embedded within the fabric of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Ruppin, Brian Williams, Christopher Stevens ambassador, Elie Wiesel, glenn greenwald, Hannah Arendt, Jeff Greenwald, Lucille Ball, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers, Randy Newman, Richard Engel, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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nothing without them?
Redemption. Will it ever arrive. Not a fleeting shimmer, but something you can sink the teeth into. In the Olympics, we have this family of nations, very much an act of symbolic reconciliation. And as the opening ceremonies unfold, it … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged A Moment of Silence for Munich, Ankie Spitzer, Avery Brundage, Efraim Zinger, Elie Wiesel, Fabien Gilot, Ilana Romano, Israel Olympic Team, Italian Olympic Team 2012, Jacques Rogge, London Olympics 2012, Olympic Organizing Committee, Tzvi Varshaviak
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nobody’s perfect!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sort of. Maybe these posthumous conversions are seen as a service, to prevent the heretics from perishing in hell. They get to pick an choose over the dead, and these tend … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Frank Mormon baptism, Christopher Hitchens, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel mormonism, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Honore Daumier, Jerusalem Third Temple, Joseph Smith Mormon, matisyahu, Mormon Religion, Mormonism Mitt Romney, Nazi destruction of Warsaw, Simon Wiesenthal
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radical chic: return of the ekosians
Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound? Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, Arthur Butz, children of holocaust survivors, david ridgen, Elie Wiesel, Eva Fogelman, fara kaplan, George Grosz, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Natasha Mozgovaya, nicolas rossier, Norman Finkelstein, Steven Plaut, Thomas Klocek, Tom Segev
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short lease: after this commercial break
The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged albert hackett, Ann Frank, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bruno Schulz, Elie Wiesel, frances goodrich, Gene Wilder, holocaust industry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Frank, Primo Levi, sharon dogar
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where shall i seek you
The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading
leaving the absence intact
Monuments. There are monuments of the holocaust all over Germany. They are like crosses with the suffering Jesus allover the backroads of Quebec in the 1960’s. Mourn through the monuments and let them do the heavy lifting. We can’t really … Continue reading
passively complicit outrage
There are a number of near non-resolvable dilemmas that artists face in representing the holocaust in their creations. It addition to contributing a broader and profound understanding of the complexities of this tragedy, there are other considerations such as whether … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adorno, alan schechner, Bruno Ganz, carol zemel, Claude Lanzmann, Donald Kuspit, Elie Wiesel, Gottfried Helnwein, henryk ross, Jean Paul Sartre, Lee Miller photography, margaret bourke-white, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Theodor Adorno
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