Asaf Tal

Au revoir les enfants

Au revoir les enfantsDirector: Louis MalleFrance, 1987 / French (Hebrew trans.) / 85 minutes (color) Read more

"Music Box" - Director: Costa-Gavras

"Music Box"Costa GavrasUSA, 1989 / English and Hungarian / 194 minutes Recommended for grades 10-12  The Film Music Box, released in 1989, was directed by the French-Greek director Costa-Gavras. Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the script, was born in Hungary in 1944. His father Istvan, a newspaper editor, collaborated with the pro-Nazi Hungarian regime and wrote antisemitic literature. Music Box was produced against the background of the unfolding trial of John Demjanjuk in Israel, and the film... Read more

Interview with Chava Wolf, Artist

An Interview with Dr. Havi Dreifuss

Interview with Professor Israel Gutman, Historian

Professor Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923 and was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, the Jewish underground resistance in Warsaw, and the Jewish Combat Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. He was a prisoner at the Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen concentration camps. After the end of World War II he was active in the Jewish and Zionist youth organizations in Austria and in Italy. In 1946, he immigrated to Israel (then British Mandatory Palestine) and was a... Read more

Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Professor Daniel Mendelsohn is a member of a Jewish family from Long Island, New York. He was born in 1960 and currently lives in Manhattan. Mendelsohn is an author, a researcher, and a literary scholar specializing in the classical period. He has a PHD from Princeton, is academically active and heads the Charles Ranlett Flint Humanities Department at Bard College. He also works as a columnist and book critic for the New Yorker, New York Times, The New York Review of Books and Esquire. He has... Read more

Interview with Dr. Götz Aly, German Historian and Journalist

Dr. Götz Aly is a German historian and journalist researching the Holocaust and German history during the Nazi period. He is presently researching the survivors’ return home to Europe after the Holocaust, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Aly for agreeing to share his ideas and thoughts with us. Also, we thank Mr. Enno Raschke for his kind assistance during the interview. Can you... Read more