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A Question of Morality: An End to Restitution of Nazi Looted Art? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

ukro — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:07:50 GMT

For years, it has been widely accepted that artworks looted by the Nazis should be returned to their rightful owners. But now a prominent British expert has called for a stop to restitution -- and triggered protests in the art world.

Book review: The Case For God: What Religion Really Means - The Scotsman

ukro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:48:43 GMT

Book review: The Case For God: What Religion Really Means - THE CASE FOR GOD: WHAT RELIGION REALLY MEANS

by Karen Armstrong

The Bodley Head, 384pp, £20

Review by RICHARD HOLLOWAY

Book reviews

ukro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:50:44 GMT

‘The Case for God’ by Karen Armstrong |

Esther Slevogt: A hard-nosed Utopian - signandsight

ukro — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:40:34 GMT

Making audiences happy makes other people suspicious. MaxReinhardt not only staged theatre in Berlin, he also built and ran several of them very successfully. He democratised the closed world of theatre, but he has never been able toshake the accusation of being apolitical. By Esther Slevogt

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ukro — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:00:04 GMT

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Herta Müller: Securitate in all but name - signandsight

ukro — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:17:40 GMT

Update: Herta Müller wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009. Twenty years after Ceausescu's execution, his secret service is still active - only its name has changed. Secret files are being manipulated; shadowing and smear campaigns continue. For the first time, Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller describes her long history of Securitate persecution, uncertain of how much she has yet to endure.

Holocaust: The Ignored Reality - The New York Review of Books

ukro — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:23:35 GMT

An article by Timothy Snyder from The New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009

The End of the Affair

ukro — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:52:04 GMT

by Wesley Yang > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life

They need a hero - The National Newspaper

ukro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:05:52 GMT

Cover story For centuries Germans united around the tale of Hermann, a chieftain who defeated the Roman army. But this founding national myth was banished from memory in the postwar era. Clay Risen considers the search for national identity in a post-national age.