Click Here to Read: 150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever: Staring down vicious anti-Semitic attacks, Benjamin Disraeli became Queen Victoria’s man of the people and built up the most successful party the country has ever seen
By Robert Phipot on the Times of Israel website on February 22, 2018.
Benjamin Disraeli. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO””: On the 20th anniversary of the Starr investigation, which introduced her to the world, the author rfeflects on the changing nature of trauma, the de-evolution of the media, and the extraordinary hope now provided by the #MeToo movement by Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair in the March 2018 Issue.
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Brill Library Film Series
Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
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JOIN US for a Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters
Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:00 – 10:00 pm, The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
The Friends of the Brill Library present a screening and post-film discussion of Gods and Monsters with Dr. William Fried.
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and Continue reading THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
Click Here to Read: ‘It You Could Lick My Heart it Would Poison You’ Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice? By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on April 30, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Culture Desk: “Ida”: A Film Masterpiece By David Denby on the New Yorker on May 27, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Ida Reviewed by Godfrey Cheshire on the Roger Ebert Website on May 2, 2014.
Click Here to Read: An Innocent Awakened: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on May 1, 2014. Continue reading Movies Monday: Ida
