Category Archives: Jews

French Antisemitism

May 6, 2013

Husky librarian lectured members of historical society about vast news and photo archives and then discussed college background, emphasizing in grad school had researched paper about nineteenth century French anti-Semitism. As author of “Hitler Here” I approached and said, that’s obscure subject.
Yes, but fascinating, he replied. I focused on Edouard Drumont, Adolf Hitler [...]

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Berlin Jewish Cultural League

October 9, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

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Ivan the Terrible

March 2, 2012

identification card proves
ivan demjanjuk
guarded jews at
sobibor death camp
demjanjuk insists
had to or die
only handful of
two hundred fifty
thousand jews survived
and no aged survivor
remembers so
ivan demjanjuk
though convicted
as accessory in murder
of twenty-eight thousand
was released to german
nursing home
pending appeal
at least he’ll never go
back to cleveland
said one survivor
Source: “Demjanjuk in Munich” by Lawrence Douglas in Harper’s March 2012

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Berlin Jewish Cultural League

February 7, 2012

what wonderful idea is
berlin jewish cultural league
comfortably immersed in arts
we hundred seventy five thousand
jewish berliners shall relax until
nazism disappears can’t be long
meanwhile have music and other
outlets here and around germany
unfortunate but tolerable only jews
can perform in our orchestra only
jews attend only jews publish reviews
we enjoy our concerts make money too
don’t need germans who’ve forgotten
we’re [...]

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Adolf Eichmann Appears at Film Festival

August 21, 2011

On the final afternoon of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, before a near capacity audience in the large theater, Adolf Eichmann – looking typically banal, bespectacled, and grim – was wheeled in a glass cage onto a stage in front of the screen after completion of “Eichmann’s End: Love, Betrayal, Death,” and he demanded: [...]

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Siege of Masada

September 11, 2010

I’m one of the least zealous of Jewish Zealots who’ve killed many Romans for attacking and forcing us out of Jerusalem and eventually onto this scorched rock plateau called Masada, leering down at the Dead Sea, in the Judean desert. I keep thinking I’m here about a century too late. Why can’t I [...]

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Ahmadinejad Warns Israel and the United States

August 24, 2010

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge.”

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Geopolitics at the Tomb of the Virgin Mary

August 21, 2010

Visitors to the Tomb of the Virgin Mary, near Jerusalem, are doubtless humbled and excited by the opportunity to establish a physical connection, however mystical, to her son, Jesus Christ. According to the Sacred Tradition of Eastern Christianity, Mary died naturally and three days after being lain to rest was resurrected body and soul [...]

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My So-Called Enemy

August 5, 2010

You’re invited. Tune in to “My So-Called Enemy” in the summer of 2002 at a retreat in gentrified New Jersey where for ten days teenage girls from Israel and Palestine are gathered to discuss their lives, seek common ground, and learn conflict resolution skills. The latter two goals are challenging. It’s the [...]

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Budrus 2099

August 3, 2010

I’m tired of my parents telling me how lucky I am to live in a country with the highest per capita income in the world. I’m bored with reminders that life is infinitely easier for me than it was for my great grandparents. Too often I must endure the same stories about how [...]

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Joseph Goebbels Watches A Film Unfinished

August 2, 2010

May 1942 is an extraordinary time. In the East, ideally situated after our invasion last year devoured thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union and enabled us to kill and capture several million enemy soldiers, we are resuming offensives and will soon surely have the Russian colossus on its knees. In North [...]

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Historian Offers to Write Screenplay about Hitler Here

July 13, 2009

How pleased I recently was to receive an email with the subject “Screenplay” and addressed to “Illustrious Sir”.  The correspondent introduced himself with news he’d been reading my biographical novel Hitler Here and thought it was “great” and “what an ordeal (I) must have gone through to produce it.”  Since the book took twenty years [...]

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Jewish Film Festival in the Bay Area

August 12, 2008

Baghdad Twist

Don’t ask my age.  It’s none of your business, I told my son, and doesn’t concern people who’ll watch your documentary.  No one’s going to see me in this film.  They’ll only hear my voice.  Better they look at black and white photos of me as a child in reasonably hospitable Iraq where [...]

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A Jewish Girl in Nazi Germany

May 16, 2007

During the Los Angeles Book Fair at UCLA in late April, sun-splattered readers roamed by the thousands, and scores stopped by Tent 106 to talk to three other authors and me about our books.  Mine is called Hitler Here.  It’s a biographical novel, and the cover bears a menacing, pencil portrait of the man in [...]

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Mel Gibson to Bring Peace to Middle East

August 2, 2006

I’m an alcoholic.  I’ve been an alcoholic all my adult life, and my disease has been a battle.  I’ve battled it to stay sober and when intoxicated I’ve struggled to get drunker.  I’m the same as any other drunk.  It doesn’t matter that I’m rich and famous and handsome and a renowned authority on religious [...]

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Letter to Holocaust Deniers

February 6, 2005

A few days ago I received several e-mails from a group that says it didn’t happen.
To the RePorter NoteBook:
Your insinuations and assertions that the Holocaust never happened are preposterous and insulting, and your general explanation of how the ruse was pulled off is pitiful: Americans in the conquered West and Russians in the occupied East lied about the hell [...]

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