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Tag Archives: Raul Hilberg
cain and not fable….
Gresham’s Law: the bad tends to drive out the good… …The Holocaust and Auschwitz. The question continues to haunt us, and the answers still elude us. We will never be able to justify the Holocaust, to rationalize it, to explain … Continue reading
A is for ….
Is every man a free agent whose moral decisions are autonomous? Historically, we’ve been on shaky ground, more of a landslide really when our eggs have been in the humanism basket, a faith in an innate quality that would ensure … Continue reading
the banality of engagement: blame the victims
There is something about Hannah. For some reason Hannah Arendt has been a post-modern magnet for for ant-Jewism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments all nicely couched in the language of human rights, respect, and all manner of motherhood statements that masks … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amos Elon, avigail sperber, Ben Hecht, bernard saffran, Deborah Lipstadt, Edouard Manet, eichmann trial, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, hollerith machine nazis, jabotinsky, karl jaspers, leo baeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Max Lerner, netalie braun, Peter Bergson, Raul Hilberg, tony judt, Walter Benjamin
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the shoah must go on?
The trains, the cattle cars, rolling down the tracks towards Auschwitz and the other camps did not have separate quarters. The same place setting in hell saw right and left, religious and secular.People like Matisse’s wife, Catholic converts like Jacob … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Claude Lanzmann, Hitler final solution, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jacob Frank, Louis Proyect, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, mimmo rubino, Moses Schulstein, Raul Hilberg, Sir Edward John Poynter, Slavoj Zizek, Zoltan Kluger
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old doctor: same sick disease
Days of their lives…The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust Remembrance Day is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged aryeh eldad, Band of Brothers movie, Effi Eitam, Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Januscz Korczak, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nissan Slomianski, Norman Finkelstein, Rabbi Wolpo, Raul Hilberg, Robert Capa, Zoltan Kluger
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the great explainer
How is it possible that a Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman is declared by the American army to be mentally unfit for military duty while an out-and-out mental case like Adolf Eichmann is judged “normal” by six Israeli psychiatrist. … Continue reading
what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … 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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descent worries and anxiety: “easy delight”
I came across a biography of Maria Landrock who was a celebrity star during the Third Reich. It does force one to look at the role of popular entertainment within its context as part of the entertainment industry pushed to … Continue reading
doctor i’d like a divine proportion
McBeauty. Is happiness an inside job? If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Hardly.No black swans. Cosmetic surgery, a procrastination of the genetic code is situated at the charged sweet spot between emotion and capitalism. A heady mix. Part of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged cosmetic surgery, divine ratio, Dorothy Parker, fanny brice, goldie hawn, jennifer anniston, Joan Rivers, joseph heath rebel sell, laurie essig, Leni Riefenstahl, Leonardo Da Vinci, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, The Golden Ratio, Thorstein Veblen
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