Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...

A tour that includes cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, third from left) passes the site of a concentration camp in Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures) ...

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Editor’s note: Peter Rutland is professor of government at Wesleyan University and an expert in the politics of contemporary Russia. He is a vice president of the Association for the Study of ...

In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian on his yacht, Levy gingerly asked him about “The Day the Clown Cried.” Levy knew the ...

The famed architect Louis Kahn made little effort to live Jewishly in his life, yet throughout the 20th century he designed synagogues and famous Holocaust memorials across the country. The Hungarian ...

Veteran director Amos Gitai’s One Day You’ll Understand is about Victor, a middle-aged Parisian who is trying to find out from his mother Rivka what she and her parents experienced during the ...

He Zoomed in for the premiere of his new film, which embeds issues of trauma and identity in an odd-couple buddy comedy. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics If humanity were to ...

Jewish violin prodigy Shony Alex Braun was a young man when he lost his family to concentration camps during World War II. He managed to survive four of the camps himself, believing his musical talent ...

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(JTA) — Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, ...