Currently Browsing: August 2013
UPDATE Follow this link for the summary of this lecture that appears in the Fall 2013 issue of the Chicago YIVO Bulletin: Fall2013ChgoYIVO “There with my love I’m home.” Thanks to everyone who came to the Harold Washington Library Center in the Chicago Loop for last night’s lecture. Wow, what a spectacle! Click here to […]
Margarethe von Trotta’s new film Hannah Arendt resurrects two old controversies. The first is about Hannah Arendt’s relationship with Martin Heidegger. The second is about her relationship with Varian Fry. Click HERE for more on Varian Fry. Thoughts about Martin Heidegger are below. Hannah Arendt opens Friday (8/16) in Metro Chicago. Click HERE for our FF2 Haiku. Click HERE for my review from Penny’s […]
Margarethe von Trotta’s new film Hannah Arendt resurrects two old controversies. The first is about Hannah Arendt’s relationship with Martin Heidegger. The second is about her relationship with Varian Fry. Click HERE for more on Martin Heidegger. Thoughts about Varian Fry are below. Hannah Arendt opens Friday (8/16) in Metro Chicago. Click HERE for our FF2 […]
UPDATE: Follow this link for the summary of this lecture that appears in the Fall 2013 issue of the Chicago YIVO Bulletin –> Fall2013ChgoYIVO On September 22, 1964—the opening night of a new Broadway musical called Fiddler on the Roof—a man named Harry Rabinowitz sat in the audience “amid a crowd of cousins and family friends.” After […]
Documentary (co-directed by Mevlut Akkaya & Ron Frank) covers oft-tread territory with Robert Klein narrating & Lawrence J. Epstein (author of “The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America“) serving as guest expert. Nice classic footage of Borscht Belt hotels in their Post-WWII heyday when Jews from the hot cities of New York & […]