Sebald’s novel “Austerlitz” provides insights to fascism than anticipate Trump.
Tag Archives: Holocaust
Paul Celan on Fascism’s Horrors
Paul Celan’s “Death Fugue,” about the Holocaust, reads differently during the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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Putin Is Giving War a Bad Name
Some who support fascists would prefer that they stay clean. Brecht has something to say about them.
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Feeding on Beauty in the Midst of Horror
If music sustained camp prisoners during the Holocaust, as Rita Dove describes in this poem, the arts can sustain us during our current pandemic.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Transit", Alice Herz-Sommer, concentration camps, Fascism, Music, Nazis, Rita Dove Comments closed
Books Protect Us from Madness
Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” shows both the power and the danger of stories.
Cain: A Positive Way Past Collective Guilt
Nazi perpetrators who turned to Christianity avoided true contrition. Both the story of Cain and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” show how to really get right with God.
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Could Beowulf Have Saved Jews?
In her book about Eichmann, Hannah Arendt praises the Danes for how they stood up to the Nazis. One can draw a parallel with how Beowulf stands up to Grendel and also apply the lesson to the Trayvon Martin case.
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