Archive for September 2016
NYC’s Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
(The Central Park West facade of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue) Janet R. Kirchheimer is a writer whose Holocaust-related poetry was praised by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. She serves as a docent for tours of The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue — Congregation Shearith Israel — on Central Park West at West 70th Street. In this interview, I catch up…
Read MoreDIRECTOR’S CORNER; ARNON GOLDFINGER
The Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger is a true cinéaste, whose films have won many prestigious awards. His revelatory documentary THE FLAT narrates his discovery of his German-born grandparents’ — the Tuchlers’ — unusual history with a Nazi, Leopold von Mildenstein. For The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, I wrote a commentary on THE FLAT. In this…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner: Sebastian Moll
(Photo by Harry Zernike) Sebastian Moll is a German-born writer resident in New York City. He reports on New York and the U.S. for a wide range of prestigious German publications including Spiegel online and the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Recently, I caught up with Sebastian for this interview. 1) How did you first become interested in…
Read MoreAUTHOR’S CORNER: NOAH ISENBERG
Prominent author and film scholar Noah Isenberg will appear at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 to introduce a free screening of Billy Wilder’s film MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (PEOPLE ON SUNDAY) and then again on Thursday, September 15 to introduce a free screening of Edmund Goulding’s GRAND HOTEL, adapted from…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, author and Fairfield University Professor of History Dr. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld will deliver remarks about Duki Dror‘s film MENDELSOHN’S INCESSANT VISIONS in connection with a screening of the movie at the Leo Baeck Institute, NYC. The film is about the influential German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn. The event is free to the…
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