Art & The Holocaust

Can abstraction, and Abstract art, deal properly with the enormity of the Shoah? (Jewish Exponent)

A Haredi woman, born to parents dreadfully traumatized by the Holocaust, has created Holocaust art for decades. (Nextbook)

Marvel Comics will be running a new miniseries called “Magneto: Testament�, which “follows a Jewish boy and his family through Germany and Poland from 1935 to 1945.� (Forward)

Author Steve Stern says, “Unless you’ve lived it, to use Shoah for the purposes of art or literature is to make fables, and too often those fables result in a kind of inverse sentimentality intended to lend authenticity to tales that cannot command those virtues on their own steam. To turn Shoah into nostalgia is a criminal betrayal of the victims.� (Forward)

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Magneto in the Holocaust

This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...

Literature and the Arts

-Appreciations of the recently deceased writer Grace Paley: The Jewish Week NJ Jewish News The Forward Los Angeles Times -The ...

In the Diaspora

-Jude Stewart says that R.B. Kitaj tried to show us what “Diasporist art looks like.â€? (Nextbook)-Reuven Hammer makes the case ...