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Communist ColludersThursday, November 15, 2012 by Anne Applebaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After World War II, East European Communist parties sought to burnish their image as nationalist patriots. How did they do it? Anti-Semitism, of course.
Jacob’s Sons in the Bishop’s PalaceWednesday, November 14, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The current Baron Rothschild is one of the British philanthropists backing a new museum of Christianity in Britain, built around a dazzling series of thirteen Baroque paintings, each over eight feet tall.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by dir. Stuart Cooper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Cooper's 1975 film, set just before the D-Day invasion, follows a young British soldier from basic training to the vicious battle on the beaches of Normandy. (Video; free link, expires November 19th)Rome, Open City
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by dir. Roberto Rossellini | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Filmed in the immediate aftermath of the war, Rosselini's 1945 drama, set in Rome, 1944, portrays the doomed struggle of the Italian resistance against their Nazi occupiers. (Video; free link, expires November 19th)Ballad of a Soldier
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by dir. Grigori Chukhrai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A milestone of Soviet cinema, Chukhrai's 1959 film, about a Russian soldier returning home on leave, contrasts the devastation of war with the endurance of love. (Video; free link, expires November 19th)Night and Fog
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by dir. Alain Resnais | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Featuring real footage from Auschwitz and Majdanek, Resnais' 1955 documentary Nuit et Brouillard made audiences worldwide witnesses to the brutality of the concentration camps. (Video; free link, expires November 19th)
