Most Israeli Jews Can’t Say If They’re More Israeli or More Jewish. And That’s a Good Thing
Religious and secular get along best when they embrace tolerance.
September 17, 2019
How the Non-Jewish Director of the First-Ever Holocaust Movie Resisted Communist Pressure to Write Jews Out of the Story
The Last Stage.
On Sunday, the 1947 Polish film The Last Stage was shown at a Tel Aviv theater. Its director, Wanda Jakubowska—a Gentile Polish Communist—was imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1943; after the war, she became one of her country’s foremost filmmakers. Using former prisoners and townspeople from the nearby hamlet of Oswiecim as her cast, she filmed the movie at the camp itself. Later Holocaust films would splice in its footage and even imitate some of its shots. Ofer Aderet writes (free registration required):
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It’s Time to Solve the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Stop treating millions of Palestinians as perpetual pawns in a war to destroy Israel.
The Latest Criticism of a New Public-Transit Plan for Jerusalem Is Rooted in Anti-Jewish Prejudice
The New York Times decries attempts to “Judaize” Jerusalem.
How the Non-Jewish Director of the First-Ever Holocaust Movie Resisted Communist Pressure to Write Jews Out of the Story
The Last Stage.
The Forgotten Lower East Side Poet Whose Work Was Popularized and Plagiarized by Hart Crane
Samuel Greenberg.