Lessons in Confronting Anti-Semitism, Learned from Years of Ignoring It
A writer admits he'd been “terribly, horribly, utterly wrong.”
June 2, 2015
Singing Verdi in Theresienstadt
“We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”
In 1943, the conductor Raphael Schachter, an inmate at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, mounted a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem with 150 of his fellow prisoners serving as the chorus. An orchestral performance of the same piece, combined with narration and video and entitled “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin” has just finished a tour of the U.S. as one of many recent efforts to recreate music produced or performed by Jews during the Holocaust. Matt Lebovic writes of the original Theresienstadt concert:
June 2, 2015
In Egypt, Religious Intolerance and Anti-Semitism Prevail
Despite President al-Sisi's calls for religious reform.
Against Its Better Judgment, Amnesty International Discovers the Truth about the Gaza War
Claims of excessive civilian casualties become even more untenable.
Saul Bellow Reads from His Work
An newly-unearthed 1988 recording of the famous novelist.
Singing Verdi in Theresienstadt
“We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”