Laurence Rees

"The Charisma of Adolf Hitler"

Howard Jacobson

(1/3)

(2/3)

(3/3)

Toronto (2011)

Morte

This gravestone, found in the churchyard of Malmesbury Abbey, belongs to Hannah Twynnoy, the first person in Britain to have been killed by a tiger. 

Vida

"How a Parrot Learns its Name in the Wild"

Justiça

"Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do", Michael Sandel

 Episode 3: "Free to Choose"

1942

"The attention of the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Jugoslav, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom and United States Governments and also of the French National Committee has been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has been extended, the most elementary human rights, are now carrying into effect Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.

From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.

The above-mentioned governments and the French National Committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn resolution to insure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end."

The Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations was a statement issued on December 17, 1942, by the American and British governments on behalf of the Allied Powers. In it, they describe the on-going events of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe. The statement was read to British House of Commons in a floor speech by Foreign secretary Anthony Eden, and published on the front page of the New York Times and many other newspapers. It was made in response to a 16-page note addressed to the Allied governments on December 10 by the Polish government-in-exile titled "The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland".

  
(Wikipedia)

1942

"The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland", note of Republic of Poland addressed to United Nations, 1942

Shoah

"The Holocaust as Global History", Timothy Snyder

(CLICAR)

Galicia

Jewish Cemetery in Bobowa

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old".

Franz Kafka

"Israel Story"

"Ep. 3: People of the Book"

Vida

Emunah

"Emunah", Shai Held

(CLICAR)

Varsóvia

Recife

Sinagoga 'Kahal Zur Israel', Recife

A Kahal Zur Israel (Congregação Rochedo de Israel) foi a primeira sinagoga das Américas. Funcionou em Pernambuco durante o período de dominação holandesa (1630 a 1657).
  Derrotados na Batalha dos Guararapes, as famílias judias retornaram para a Holanda a bordo do navio Valk. O desembarque ocorreu em Nova Amsterdão, actual Nova York, onde os judeus formaram a Congregação Shearit Israel, a primeira comunidade judaica da América do Norte.
 

Justiça

"Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?", Michael Sandel 

Episode 02: "Putting a Price Tag on Life"

Berlim

(1935)

André Kertész

BBC "Master Photographers" (1983)

Art Spiegelman

"Art Spiegelman's Maus" (1987)

Shai Held

"Gratitude and Generosity of Spirit: A Jewish Vision of the Spiritual Path"

Leonard Cohen

"You Got Me Singing"

You got me singing
Even tho’ the news is bad
You got me singing
The only song I ever had

You got me singing
Ever since the river died
You got me thinking
Of the places we could hide

You got me singing
Even though the world is gone
You got me thinking
I’d like to carry on

You got me singing
Even tho’ it all looks grim
You got me singing
The Hallelujah hymn

You got me singing
Like a prisoner in a jail
You got me singing
Like my pardon’s in the mail

You got me wishing
Our little love would last
You got me thinking
Like those people of the past

You got me singing
Even though the world is gone
You got me thinking
  I'd like to carry on

You got me singing
Even it all went wrong
You got me singing
  The Hallelujah song

Vida

"The Distinctive Calls of Owls"

Justiça

"Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?", Michael Sandel

Episode 01: "The Moral Side of Murder"

Yeshiva University

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik (2011)

Masada

"Dalet"

Morte

Moshe Halbertal (2010)

Ciganos

Ravel, "Tzigane"

Escravos

Visita Guiada às quatro igrejas do centro histórico de Faro

Vida

A spider at sunset in Predel, Bulgaria

Susan Sontag

Leonard Cohen

"Born in Chains"

Grécia

Greek vase with runners at the panathenaic games (530 BCE)

"A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka

William Deresiewicz

Hiett Prize Recipient Dr. William Deresiewicz Keynote Speech (2013)

(CLICAR)

América

Sitting Bull (1885)

J. S. Bach

"A Paixão segundo S. Mateus", Philippe Herreweghe

Vida

A leopard in Kabini, Karantaka, India

Shai Held

"Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?!"

Part 1
Part 2

(CLICAR)

Entebbe

Micha Bar-Am, 'The return from Entebbe, Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel' (1976)

 

Vulgata

Clementine Vulgate, Basel, Switzerland (1591)

Reb Zalman Shachter Shalomi

"Profiles of Faith"

Leonard Cohen

"Almost Like the Blues"

Alemanha

"No doubt, the fact that totalitarian government, its open criminality notwithstanding, rests on mass support is very disquieting. It is therefore hardly surprising that scholars as well as statesmen often refuse to recognize it, the former by believing in the magic of propaganda and brainwashing, the latter by simply denying it, as for instance Adenauer did repeatedly. A recent publication of secret reports on German public opinion during the war (from 1939 to 1944), issued by the Security Service of the SS (Meldungen aus den Reich. Auswahl aus den Geheimen Lage-berichten des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS 1939-1944, edited by Heinz Boberach, Neuwied & Berlin, 1965), is very revealing in this respect. It shows, first, that the population was remarkably well informed about so-called secrets - massacres of Jews in Poland, preparation of the attack on Russia, etc. - and, second, the "extent to which the victims of propaganda had remained able to form independent opinions" (pp. XVIII-XIX). However, the point of the matter is that this did not in the least weaken the general support of the Hitler regime. It is quite obvious that mass support for totalitarianism comes neither from ignorance nor from brainwashing."

Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism", 'Preface to Part Three: Totalitarianism', 1966  

Yair Zakovitch

Leon Charney Report (2004)

Vida

A tarsier in its natural habitat, Indonesia.

Lisboa

Massacre de Lisboa (1506)

Anarquismo

"Vacht Oyf!" aka "Vi Lang O Vi Lang" 

An old Jewish anarchist revolutionary anthem

Rio Tigre

 

Thousands of Syrian refugees crossing a bridge over the Tigris River into northern Iraq, August 17, 2013

Bíblia

 

 Gutenberg Bible 

The Gutenberg Bible was printed in 1455 in Mainz, Germany. 

It was a two-volume version of the Vulgate Bible, a 4th Century translation by Jerome.

Rei D. Manuel I

Chipre

The mind and heart of man are never empty. If there is no life-nourishing "water," there are "snakes and scorpions in it".

The Hassidic Masters

Vida

Barred Owl

O Nome

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Iom Kipur

Feliz Ano Novo!

Leonard Cohen - "Hallelujah"
 

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do You?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew You
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not a pilgrim who claims he has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

People, I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew You.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never even show it to me, do You?
I remember when I moved in You
And the holy dove she was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool You
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

"Israel Story"

"Ep. 2: Love Syndrome"