Whereas May comes on strong on the very first day, June reaches its high point two-thirds of the way through the month. On 21 June, the date of the summer solstice, the sun reaches the northernmost point of its ecliptic - the longest day of the year. [more...]

Mel Gibson's The Passion, which revives the charge of Jewish deicide, also features some antisemitic grace notes. In the scene where the bag with the 30 pieces of silver is flung at Judas Iscariot, he fails to catch it and has to grub around on the dirty floor to collect the spilled coins. [more...]

The playwright, screenwriter and novelist Ronald Harwood discussed the dilemmas of an author when dealing with the representation of events in the Holocaust at a meeting hosted by Jewish Policy Research and the Spiro Ark. Harwood has gained an international reputation for scripting plays and films, including The Dresser, Taking Sides and Mahler's Conversion as well as Cry the Beloved Country and The Pianist, for which he received an Academy Award. His most recent novel, Home, was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Prize for fiction. [more...]

Edited version of address given on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, at the Logan Hall commemoration ceremony [more...]

Käsebier Erobert den Kurfürstendamm
Gabriele Tergit
Das Neue Berlin, 2004, 271pp. [more...]

How far do you want to go back? [more...]

Austrian pension update