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Anthem Film Festival Review and Interview: ‘What’s Your Number’ Brings Hope and Holocaust
A young boy who never heard of the Holocaust joins an old man on a park bench. They talk and history becomes alive for them both.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Memory Monster’ by Yishai Sarid
The first English translation of a book by Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid – a tale of a modern-day Holocaust historian – appears at an opportune time.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Stories from Behind the Iron Curtain
Polls show increasing numbers of young people in America say they prefer socialism to capitalism. This subject was explored in films and by a panel at the Anthem Libertarian Film Festival, part of FreedomFest, which took place at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas July 11-14.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Terezin’ by Nicholas Tolkien
Nicholas Tolkien's new play presents the terrible story of the Nazis' propaganda camp by focusing on a few characters on both sides.
Read More »Interview: Thomas Morse on His New Opera ‘Frau Schindler’
An exclusive interview with composer Thomas Morse on his new opera Frau Schindler, which recently opened in Germany.
Read More »Book Review: ‘A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz’ by Göran Rosenberg
Railroad cars brought the author's father and mother to Auschwitz, but railroad cars also brought them from Auschwitz, eventually to the town where they would try to start fresh and raise a family. His book is a loving, questioning, aching letter from a onetime little boy to the father the Nazis took from him.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Dressmaker’s Secret’ by Sarah Levine Simon and Mihai Grunfeld
Should a mother tell her son the truth of his father's identity?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Victor Attar in ‘Golgotha’ – a Holocaust Remembrance Monodrama by Shmuel Refael
The memories of his forced service at Auschwitz haunt a Sephardic Jew for the rest of his life in this searing, frighteningly timely one-man play.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Careful Old Letters: A Jewish Family’s Story,’ by Alexandra Weinbaum
Alexandra Weinbaum's book, 'Careful Old Letters: A Jewish Family's Story,' is an evocative tale of personal discovery and Holocaust history, based on a box of old letters sent from the Jewish ghettos of Europe during WWII.
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