Posts Tagged ‘The Holocaust’
THE 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 MoreREFUSING TO LOOK AWAY
REFUSING TO LOOK AWAY — by Joanne Intrator When I became a physician – a psychiatrist – I did so in no small part because of the dread thunderhead shadow Nazism cast over my young life. In escaping Hitler’s Germany, my Jewish parents were relatively fortunate, yet I always had a sense that the severe…
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…
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