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2002-03-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
www.forward.com Have you read the Forward recently? It's under new (old) ownership, I'm told. One of the old-timers told me it's "back on track." mbs Absolutely. As one of the last few in the old tradition, I'm a dinosaur. jks

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Fightin' Yids

2002-03-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
[In re the TV version of the Warsaw uprising] Sure the film was lousy with Nazis. But there was nothing about fascism -- only terribly bad guys called 'Nazis' some pretty bad guys called 'Poles,' and some schlemiels who were jews (one of whom redeems himself). The Bund was referenced in the con

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2002-03-25 Thread Devine, James
> Not necessarily. Properly reconstructed, the resistance > could serve the purposes of elites. For instance, the > recent TV movie about the Warsaw ghetto uprising was > leached of left political content and framed the rebellion > as a more honorable form of suicide: stand-and-fight > as a matt

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2002-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I remember hearing an interview on KPFA in Berkeley sometime ago regarding a story of several teenagers, boys and girls, who were Jewish partisans. Perhaps somebody knows the book. They showed incredible courage and ingenuity. Eventually they settled in Israel. The leader, hardened by the war,