Posts by Joanne Intrator
ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL
(The painting to the left is Rembrandt’s JEREMIAH LAMENTING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM) *** With this post, I am calling my readers’ attention to REMEMBER AND DO NOT FORGET, a superb book containing Jewish leaders’ reactions to the Trump-inspired terror attack on our U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The volume includes 54 brief essays…
Read MoreOP-ED: CONVICT. DISQUALIFY.
The Urgent Necessity of Limiting Trump’s Violent Bullying As a daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Germany, I developed an interest in how malevolent public figures in history and the present pervert and manipulate language to destructive ends. My interest evolved to where, in the early 1990s, I led a team conducting the first-ever brain…
Read MoreA Tribute at 16 Wallstrasse
Recently, I had the delightful surprise of receiving an email from Günter Voss, Director of the Senioren Computer Club in Berlin-Mitte. Mr. Voss has won recognition for his work in bringing older Berliners up-to-speed with digital literacy. His club meets on Berlin’s Fischerinsel (Fisher Island) in view of 16 Wallstrasse, the building Nazis stole from…
Read MoreAN UPLIFTING BOOK
I deeply cherish Glenn Kurtz’s THREE MINUTES IN POLAND. Praising this important book, Noble laureate Elie Wiesel said: “It is intensely moving and brilliantly researched, and it reads like a thriller.” In 2009, Glenn found a film his paternal grandparents made of their 1938 trip through Europe. One three-minute section especially arrested his attention, as…
Read MoreA JUDITH LEIBER HANUKKAH BOOK
I’m delighted to present this interview with writer Deborah Blumenthal, who together with artist Masha D’Yans created PARROTS, PUGS, AND PIXIE DUST: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber. While this book would be splendid for the young (and the young at heart) all year long, it’s especially appropriate as a Hanukkah gift, as Judith…
Read MoreDAVID MARWELL’S OUTSTANDING BOOK ON MENGELE
This post is about David G. Marwell’s brilliant book MENGELE: UNMASKING THE “ANGEL OF DEATH”, which you may view on Amazon here. *** Hailed by the New York Times as “a leading American investigator of Nazi war crimes,” Dr. David G. Marwell trained as an historian and then put his training to superb use outside the…
Read MoreBERLIN PHOTOGRAPHER FLORIAN REISCHAUER
(An intriguing photo from Florian Reischauer’s project GRÜß GOTT — A FAIRY TALE) *** My interview today is with the talented, Berlin-based photographer Florian Reischauer, whose award-winning PIECES OF BERLIN project features retro-style photos of individual Berliners along with expressions of their thoughts about life today in the German capital. Following PIECES OF BERLIN is…
Read MoreJASON LUTES’S EPIC GRAPHIC NOVEL “BERLIN”
Jason Lutes is the creative force behind the blockbuster graphic novel BERLIN, which chronicles the German capital in the years of the Weimar Republic. Writing about BERLIN in Forbes magazine, Rob Salkowitz called Lutes’s book “one of the most ambitious, important and fully-realized works of graphic literature yet created, a real masterpiece of both story and art.” As…
Read MoreTHE HOLOCAUST: A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
For this post, I am honored to have as my interviewee the distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Ira Brenner, editor of the recently published “Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies: International Perspectives.” Each of the contributions to this book is written in an accessible style, and I consider the volume indispensable to all readers who want to deepen…
Read MoreBERLIN NOIR
The Berlin-based THOMAS WÖRTCHE is a latter-day Renaissance man of German Literature with specialties in crime fiction and thrillers. Name a top German publication, and Thomas Wörtche most likely has contributed to it. Here’s something Thomas Przybilka has said about Wörtche: “Wörtche’s view of crime fiction is expansive, because his activities are not restricted to…
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