AFP reports that an original carbon typsecript copy of Schindler’s List – provided to author Thomas Keneally in 1980 by Leopold Pfefferberg, named on the list as Jewish worker 173 – has been discovered among Keneally’s papers at the New South Wales State Library. There are 801 names on the list.
Charles Freeman’s Divergent and Convergent Values
Mere Rhetoric reports on Charles Freeman’s complaints via Iran’s Press TV (he had to find a sympathetic ear somewhere) about his treatment by the Obama administration – and leads us back to a Freeman comment, about Israel, during a Jewish Daily Forward phone interview: It’s a foreign country, and while maybe 40 years ago many […]
The Meaning of Insidious, or a Dog with a Bone
Andrew Sullivan is a decent guy. He is also, maybe, the world’s top blogger. I’ve read his blog a long time. That’s because, in part, he’s a decent guy. I’ve written critically of him before. That’s because, in part, he’s maybe the world’s top blogger. What do I mean by that? Sullivan’s The Daily Dish […]
The Personal and the Historical
One of my continuing interests is the intersection of the “ordinary” individual life and the historical moment. My own father, Meyer, or Mac, had many. Born in a small shtetl in Ukraine before the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, arriving, still a teen, in 1927. In the early Thirties, at the height […]