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From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel

  Bar-Mitzvah in front of the Auschwitz entrance The scale of the Shoah prevents us from perceiving it in a whole. Human psyche’s self-defence mechanism is evoked, often blocking us from absorbing it in its enitre shocking volume. We know its methodic plan and idea. We also know the incomprehensible outcome of it. It comes as facts of history. But what connects us with our brethren perished in that unspeakable crime is the way of personal identification with real people from those six – an...

OSIP January 15th, 2020 has marked one of the most special commemoration dates in this year’s cultural calendar, the 130th birth anniversary of Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet of Jewish origin, vulnerable and hunted man who has created a cosmic, unparalleled quality of poetry that has become a distinctive mark of literature of the XX century in general.  This anniversary could well be his 300th or 30th one. He is from the category of eternal lights, and there are so very few of them. Michael R...