Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin: Kindred Spirits?
Two men who waited decades to come in from the margins.
November 21, 2017
The Work of a Unique Jewish Artist, Murdered by the Nazis, Finally on Display as Its Creator Intended
Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater?
Born in Berlin in 1917, Charlotte Salomon fled Germany for France in 1938, following Kristallnacht. After France fell to the Nazis, she was briefly interned in a concentration camp, subsequently released, and trekked on foot to temporary safety in Italian-controlled Nice. There, in the space of several months, she produced over 1,000 small paintings and shaped them into a single work. When the Holocaust caught up with Nice, she went into hiding but eventually was apprehended by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, where she was gassed along with her unborn child. The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam has now put on display, for the first time in its entirety, her masterpiece titled Life? Or Theater? It has also been published in a single volume. Griselda Pollock writes:
November 21, 2017
Hassan Rouhani: The Iranian “Moderate” Who Has Consolidated the Power of Radical Islamists
Yet the myth persists.
The Work of a Unique Jewish Artist, Murdered by the Nazis, Finally on Display as Its Creator Intended
Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater?
A Misconceived Book Seeks to Combat Bigotry by Romanticizing Islam
Garry Wills’ Quran.
What Ancient Copper Mines Tell Archaeologists about the United Israelite Monarchy
The great controversy of biblical archaeology.