One of the more transparent and pathetic strategies of damage control that has emerged in the wake of the Black Notebooks’ publication is the contention that, given the proportions and extent of the current historical…
Dear friends, Today we celebrate the second edition of the Jewish Book Festival, Séfer Barcelona, and at the same time we can say that we are living in exceptional times. We must confess that those…
David Albahari (b. 1949) is a Serbian writer who has lived more than 10 years in exile in Canada. He went into exile because the former Yugoslavia was torn apart by ethnic war. Albahari left…
Stefan Zweig, whose works passed into the public domain this year in many countries around the world, was one of the most famous writers of the 1920s and 30s. Will Stone explores the importance of…
Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but The…
The notions of singular leadership and the place of the zaddik in Jewish cosmology are traced from first century rabbinic sources down to rival Hasidic claims in the mid-nineteenth century. The problem with the image…
Instantanea de Marie Elen Dodge (presunta testigo) que situa a Magneto en el lugar del crimen Existen un buen número de teorías conspirativas en torno al misterioso asesinato de John F. Kennedy pero hasta ahora…
From darkness to darkness (Von Dunkel zu Dunkel) “From Darkness to Darkness” You opened your eyes – I saw my darkness live. I see through it down the bed: there too it is mine and…
On the 25th of October the movie “Beatle Jew” from Szarfer and Wagensberg will be screened at the greatest documentary film festival in central and eastern Europe. Curators of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival…