Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Theater Hannah Arendt is a detective solving the mystery of Eichmann in a new play
‘The Banality of Evil’ adapts Arendt’s famous dispatch from Jerusalem
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Film & TV In ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ Adolf Eichmann hangs himself with his own words
The documentary delivers previously unheard audio, but can’t work through its own banality
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Opinion Eichmann’s trial set the stage for more battles over the Shoah — including my own
Today, April 11, marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel, a watershed moment in Jewish history. The Eichmann trial was the first time in 2,000 years that Jews, represented by the Jewish state, could call an oppressor to account. Ever since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem,…
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Culture He survived the Holocaust, then interrogated Eichmann. 60 years later, he remembers.
60 years ago this week, Adolf Eichmann, one of the primary architects of the Holocaust, was captured in Argentina by a secret group of Mossad and Shin Bet agents. It was a stunning development. When Israel’s then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced Eichmann’s capture on May 22, 1960, 11 days after he was whisked out of…
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Culture Eichmann’s Capture Created Dangerous Myths. ‘Operation Finale’ Makes Them Worse.
In a telling scene in “Operation Finale” — the new blockbuster dramatization of Israel’s 1960 capture of Nazi architect of the Final Solution Adolf Eichmann — Mossad operatives are in a bar, drinking, smoking and looking somber. The group has a resident hothead, a staple of the espionage genre, who insists that each team member…
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The Schmooze Rachel Bloom Tells Adolf Eichmann’s Story on ‘Drunk History’
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Rachel Bloom. Weird Al Yankovic. Adolf Eichmann. Buster Bluth. No, it’s not the theme of my bat mitzvah party, it’s a new episode of “Drunk History.” Huzzah! God has truly smiled on us. For today the TV show “Drunk History” — which plies historians with enormous amounts of alcohol and asks them…
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Fast Forward Ben Kingsley Playing Adolf Eichmann In Movie About Israeli Capture Operation
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — British actor Ben Kingsley is in Buenos Aires filming a Hollywood movie about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents. Filming of “Operation Finale” will last one more month in the greater Buenos Aires area in which Eichmann lived as Ricardo Klement until a Mossad unit…
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