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Holocaust in Pop Culture

What does justice mean?
Jake Paltrow's film "June Zero," about the historic crematorium built only for Eichmann, raises questions on identity, memory and retribution that we…
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Is the Holocaust appearing in popular culture even more frequently? What's your fav or most hated example?
(Above - Magneto’s Auschwitz tattoo)
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What Lena Dunham's "Treasure" Got Right About Jewish Heritage Trips...and Wrong
It's not uncommon for Holocaust survivors to run away from their trauma while their descendants run towards it, but the emotional truth behind that…
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Magneto and the use (and abuse) of Holocaust memory
What happens when the oppressed become the oppressors? How does one share land with their enemies? X-Men '97 takes on these issues and it could not be…
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The Zone of Interest and Perpetrator Fiction
The idea is to put ourselves in a villain's shoes and realize how terrible we can all really be. But then what?
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Book Review: The Archivists
In Daphne Kalotay's short story collection, love and loss are painstakingly catalogued
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Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Holocaust? (Essay)
On the eve of Yom HaShoah, and the anniversary of her grandmother's deportation to a ghetto ahead of Auschwitz, Leah Eichler has some thoughts.
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