by Pier Marton | Jan 13, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Racism, Women
Long Night’s Journey into Day, the website (with excerpts) for this most important film and its distributor, California Newsreel. The BBC report. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Art, Galleries, History, Ideas, Objects, Politics, Site, Spectacle, Time
In Los Angeles. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
From the founder of Esperanto, an ophthalmologist of great vision: “I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness… It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples — as a natural self-defensive...
by Pier Marton | Jan 11, 2011 | Art, Film, History, Humor, Jewish, Politics, Shoah, Time
by Pauline Kael: “Siegfried Kracauer is the sort of man who can’t say ‘It’s a lovely day’ without first establishing that it is day, that the term “day” is meaningless without the dialectical concept of ‘night,’...
by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Racism, Time
“In the corners of the living quarters of the Africans … you will find the filth, card games played for money, residents getting drunk, and prostitution. … The Africans bring this way of life with them when they migrate, and it is no wonder that...
by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, History, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Racism, Roma, Shoah
Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures by Andrei Oisteanu With a foreword by Moshe Idel. “This book is erudite, richly documented and intelligently written. Though both a comprehensive and explicit analysis of so many themes...