HOLOCAUST MEMORY
26.09.2016
Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
Early childhood development specialists emphasize the importance of having a nurturing and stable environment for infants and toddlers. That’s when the foundations of a child’s personality are [...]
25.04.2016
Personal Memory and Political History
It is a real pleasure to present you, Ms. Claudia Moscovici, novelist and literary critic, to the readers, but I think there is no better presentation than the one described by the person [...]
18.04.2016
Introduction to ”Holocaust Memory”
Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been thousands of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important may still fall into oblivion. [...]
21.03.2016
Janusz Korczak, “The King of the Children”
Joseph Stalin once told U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman “the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” Perhaps this is why readers react so much more sympathetically [...]
14.03.2016
IG Farben: Manufacturing Death
IG Farben didn’t start out as a Nazi death factory, which is what it’s known for to this day. In fact, up to the mid 1930’s its chief executives were not particularly anti-Semitic. Formed in [...]
07.03.2016
The Nuremberg Trial
How do you punish the perpetrators of the biggest genocide in human history? Do they deserve a fair trial, which their millions of victims never got? These are some of the questions the Allies [...]
29.02.2016
Presidential Elections in the U.S.
Let’s vote for Governor John Kasich We’re experiencing an election season like no other. The two major political parties in the U.S. find themselves in the unique predicament of elections [...]
22.02.2016
The true banality of evil
– Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning – Hannah Arendt referred to Adolf Eichmann as the paradigm of the banality of evil: an ordinary man led by extraordinary circumstances to [...]
18.01.2016
Conformism and Artistic Freedom
Artistic freedom and aesthetic value are interrelated. Art that is not considered valuable by the artistic establishment – art critics, museum curators and art historians – doesn’t [...]
11.01.2016
Când arta se intersectează cu matematica
– Constantin Brâncuşi, M.C. Escher şi Cristian Todie – (Notă: acest eseu este dedicat tatălui meu, matematicianul Henri Moscovici) Doar relativ recent în istoria culturală – [...]
