In a visit with film historian Bruce Lawton, we learn about the early work of Danny Kaye – from his first appearances on stages in the Borscht Belt to his screen debut in four little known ‘two-reelers’. Lawton will be presenting his multi-media presentation “Meet Nikolai Nikolaevich!…The Not Yet ‘Re-Fined’ Danny Kaye!” at the Yiddish Book Center on September 29, 2013.
Click Here to Listen to: The interview with Bruce Lawton.
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Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin
Panel Discussion
“Sovereignty cannot be conceived as the right to kill innocent people.” —Raphael Lemkin
How can we define genocide? How is the concept of genocide interpreted in discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Rwanda, and other devastating events such as those in Cambodia, Darfur and the former Yugoslavia? And what about Syria? Continue reading Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin at CJH
