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Steven Pinker recommended Enemies, a Love Story in Books (curated)

 
Enemies, a Love Story
Enemies, a Love Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer | 2012 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"Perhaps my favorite contemporary novel by someone I’m not married to. It’s about a holocaust survivor who ends up with three wives. Every scene is a goldmine of insight about human nature."

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Dr. Ruth recommended Schindler's List (1993) in Movies (curated)

 
Schindler's List (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
1993 | Biography, Drama, History

"As an orphan of the Holocaust, this movie touched me deeply. And in the hands of Steven Spielberg, the story was told so that it kept you on the edge of your seat."

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Exterminate All the Brutes
Exterminate All the Brutes
Sven Lindqvist | 2018 | History & Politics, Travel
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"By traveling in Africa while also learning from hundreds of books stored in his computer, Lindquist shows us that racism was invented to justify colonialism. Racism came home to Europe as the holocaust."

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Denial (2016)
Denial (2016)
2016 | Drama
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7.9 (8 Ratings)
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Story is vital especially after recent events
A very important film given the spate of holocaust denial in recent days. This is about the renowned libel case brought by the Holocaust denier and self- proclaimed historian David Irving against American academic Deborah Lipstadt. Lipstadt referred to Irving as such in a book and was subsequently sued and taken to court in the UK. It's a powerful account of how such bogus offensive claims about the Holocaust are allowed to be published without any accountability. Having visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, watching this film was emotional enough for me let alone the survivors which I can't even compare or imagine. So it's great that a film can counteract such ludicrous claims in this day and age. Fabulous acting all round.
  
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
1966 | Classics, Drama, War
7.4 (8 Ratings)
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"I was twenty-four years old when I made my first film, Pusher (about the Danish drug underworld), and for it I stole everything I could, both visually and technically, from this film and Cannibal Holocaust."

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Chrissie Hynde recommended Enemies, a Love Story in Books (curated)

 
Enemies, a Love Story
Enemies, a Love Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer | 2012 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"“Another masterpiece by a master. Singer’s story about a Polish Holocaust survivor living in New York manages to be extremely funny, heartbreaking, and insightful. Any reader who hasn’t read this has a real treat in store.”"

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Fires in the Dark
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It was interesting to read about the Gypsy culture and the holocaust. It explains a lot about they behaviour since then. The name changes of the characters can make it a bit difficult to follow the story.
  
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Salman Rushdie recommended Riddley Walker in Books (curated)

 
Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban | 2012 | Contemporary, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9.5 (2 Ratings)
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"This unjustly forgotten 1980 novel is unlike anything else: Its portrait of a world after a nuclear holocaust — the explosion of the “1 Big 1″ — is written in language that’s brilliantly fractured, as if a bomb has exploded there as well."

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    The Life Ahead (2020)

    The Life Ahead (2020)

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    In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who...