A Scholar's Book Adds Layers of Complexity to the Schindler Legend
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An authoritative new biography of Oskar Schindler clashes sharply with his idealized portrayal in Steven Spielberg's 1993 movie "Schindler's List."
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Pages can scarcely contain the scope of Leonardo da VinciÂs mind.
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After seven years of quiet work, about half a million pages of detailed records of the Vienna community during the Holocaust are about to be officially unveiled.
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âPraying With Liorâ documents the extraordinary life of Lior Liebling, a rabbiâs son with Down syndrome.
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In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
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Yaron Zilberman's moving documentary approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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A raucous book launch offers a glimpse of the passions unleashed by a historian's account of Poland's treatment of Holocaust survivors
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The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank," was unveiled Monday by Israel's Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager vividly described the world crumbling around her as she came of age in a Jewish ghetto.
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Harvard University was complicit in enhancing the prestige of the Nazi regime in the 1930s despite knowing Jews were being persecuted, a historian claimed Sunday at a Holocaust conference.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Deep in the library of Munib  Masri's mansion, between a portrait of Yasser Arafat and a rack  of Bedouin flintlock pistols, lies a biography of Edmond de  Rothschild -- the man whose fortune helped found modern Israel.
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This meticulously researched, authoritative biography  offers a detailed picture of Stalinâs childhood and youth, his shadowy career as a revolutionary in Georgia and his critical role during the October Revolution.
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Filmmaker Julian  Schnabel says he did not pay much attention when he was given a  copy of the extraordinary memoir &quot;The Diving Bell and the  Butterfly&quot; about six years ago.
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This meticulously researched, authoritative biography offers a detailed picture of Stalinâs childhood and youth, his shadowy career as a revolutionary in Georgia and his critical role during the October Revolution.
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This is the final book of âThe Liberation Trilogy,â which is the shaping up as a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sights and sounds of battle.
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An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.