A History of the Jews in America . New York: Knopf, 1992l. Howard M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992),A History of the Jews in America - Sachar - 1993 () Citation Context ...] a movement that might cast doubt on their Americanism.”...
The terrified young boy with his hands raised at the center of this image was one of nearly half a million Jews packed into the Warsaw ghetto, a neighborhood transformed by the Nazis into a walled compound of grinding starvation and death. Beginning in July 1942, the German occupiers star...
Hungarian Parliament Building & Crown Jewels.The Hungarian Parliament Building is an iconic landmark in Budapest, situated on the Pest side of the city facing Buda Castle. The castle is located in Kossuth Lajos Square, the Gothic Revival building contains 691 lavishly decorated rooms. Visitors can ...
Birthdate of John II, the King of Portugal whom Abraham Zacuto served as Royal Astronomer. 1554: Fifty-year-old John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, whose issuance of “a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in or passing through his realm” sparked an episode ...
“Nudie Cohn didn’t just seek to dress the stars—he wanted to be part of the Hollywood story,” says Ashley Kowalski, curator of collections at theNational Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Famein Fort Worth. “He wanted his clothing and his name to be as iconic as the actors and musicians...
Birth of the Hollywood Cowboy, 1911 Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 First Woman to Fly the English Channel, 1912 Doomed Expedition to the South Pole, 1912 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914 The German Army Marches through Brussels, 1914 The Beginning of Air Warfare, 1914 Christmas...
of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs, and from the struggle for acceptance to the ambivalence of assimila...
Clara Bow (1905-1965) became a Hollywood film star by the mid-1920s. Bow was the embodiment of the decade’szeitgeist, a “flapper,” a modern young woman pushing boundaries of expected feminine dress and manner, but her lifestyle, so modern at the time of her newly blossoming film care...
World War II was a whole country effort: Nobody, not even famous Hollywood stars, were exempt. In Five Came Back, Meryl Streep narrates as five current directors explore the impact of the war on five early 20th century directors. Each of the directors profiled volunteered to go to war. ...
Not because they were filled with graphic violent descriptions (they weren’t), but because of how it profoundly shatters most people’s perceptions of the Holocaust, especially in Hollywood movies. We’re often taught that no matter how awful it was and how many millions were killed, it was...