by Pier Marton | Feb 2, 2012 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Books, Cam, Death, Doc, Jewish, Magyar, Native, Photo, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women
New Yorker Magazine: Where There’s a Will – The rise of Leni Riefenstahl by Judith Thurman … Riefenstahl appeals to her friend and admirer Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer and the most fanatic anti-Semite in a crowded field (he was hanged for...
by Pier Marton | Jan 26, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Jewish, Juif, Music, Poet, Racism, Shoah, Theater, Wars
Wikipedia: Born into a Jewish family in Bulgaria, Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from...
by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, Shoah, STL, Time, Wars, Women
The outstanding film that was produced in 1948 by Stuart Schulberg (with Pare Lorentz) yet never screened in the US until NOW! A time to remember Whitney Harris’s work (cf. below). My review: TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART (and eyes/ears) so that today may have a...
by Pier Marton | Dec 25, 2011 | Antisemitism, Cam, Death, Ego, France, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyText, Middle-East, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women
Recently an apparently well-known British blogger featured on Democracy Now! was denouncing some British politicians for being “Pro-Israel” and from my progressive perspective I was shocked. I shouldn’t have been… Too many times I have been...
by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars
Budapest Experiences A New Wave of Hate by Erich Follath (lessons never learned) EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, History, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars
From the opening of the Preface: The three lectures presented here took shape within me over the past years. They do not present an organized body of thought, but rather reflections and feelings grounded in the tribulations of a Holocaust childhood, wanderings and...