Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design
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A revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso...
Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy
Christophe Wall-Romana, Diana Holmes and Robert Ingram
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If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Bunuel...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
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Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it...
The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust
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In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of...
A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero
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At the age of 88, Chagall produced fifty black-and-white lithographs, illustrating The Tempest. They...
The Cremator
Ladislav Fuks and Eva M. Kandler
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"The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist." Giovanni Papini It is a maxim...
The Dybbuk: A Play in Four Acts
S. Ansky, Henry G. Alsberg, Winifred Katzin and Gilbert W. Gabriel
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The Dybbuk, regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated...
Two Novellas: In the Sanatorium and Facing the Sea
David Vogel, Philip Simpson and Daniel Silverstone
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David Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure of Hebrew literature, and his work has been...
One Night, Markovitch
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In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg,...
Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar
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Filmed in1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one...