Figure Skating to ‘Schindler’s List’ Should be Welcomed

By Zach C. Cohen February 20, 2014

Bloggers made much ado as Julia Lipnitskaia took to the ice in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. It wasn’t because she was one of the best figure skaters in the world at only 15 years old. It wasn’t that in Lipnitskaia Russia had a representative on the rink for the first time in 10…

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Spielberg’s Jews: Revisiting ‘Schindler’s List’ on Yom HaShoah

By John Propper April 7, 2013

It has been pointed out that director Steven Spielberg’s mainstream success has inspired a turn toward broad, “public interest” works. For Spielberg, pop-history and film preservation have taken precedent over purely artistic endeavors. If one were to mark this shift in Spielberg’s career, it likely started with the Holocaust drama “Schindler’s List,” for which the…

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