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Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, Only for Aryans, in August 1938 in Vienna. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum /Provenance: Leo Spitzer , CC …

Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, Only for Aryans, in August 1938 in Vienna. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum /Provenance: Leo Spitzer , CC …

The ailing conductor was to have led the Staatskapelle Berlin in Brahms’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin jumped in.

“Figures of speech are never innocent, and even canaries are less innocent than one might imagine.”

The Sixth is the outlier among Beethoven’s symphonies, rural and rustic where the others are driven and dramatic. Richard Osborne makes a selection of the best versions from a rich recorded history

The Berlin-born conductor will succeed Daniel Barenboim, his former boss, who withdrew in January citing serious health concerns.

They showed how individuals can fight back under even the worst genocidal circumstances.

By Wolf Grune, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | - In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old …

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

Surrealist art in the electronic age