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Nov 15, 2024 | 
msn.com | Benjamin Balint
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Benjamin Balint
The arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential hazards. Patrons often provide financial help in return for the chance to varnish their prestige. Artists, in turn, can find themselves working within constraints set by a patron’s tastes, though they are ever eager to find room for some degree of creative freedom.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Benjamin Balint
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Benjamin Balint
In April 2023, at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, quoted from a diary written in the hell leading up to that insurrection. “The incredible vitality of Warsaw’s Jews is in vain.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
koha.net | Benjamin Balint
Njëqind vjet prej vdekjes së Franc Kafkës (3 korrik 1883 – 3 qershor 1924) njerëz dhe kombe të ndryshme ende ndeshen për trashëgiminë e tij.
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May 19, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Benjamin Balint
The story of the masochistic Schulz set amid the horrors of the Holocaust does not make for cheerful reading. The artist created erotically suggestive sketches and paintings that belied his shy, disconsolate appearance. His paintings portray submissive men, often himself, slavishly caressing the feet of beautiful, partially clad women.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Benjamin Balint
Many years ago, at a dinner party attended by some of the ex-radicals turned Cold Warriors known as the New York intellectuals, the table talk turned to denigrating writers reputed to be soft on communism and praising the “hard” anticommunists who were fighting for democracy and freedom. Before the guests could become too complacent, however, the literary critic Diana Trilling stood up and declared: “None of you men are hard enough for me!”In “Write Like a Man,” Ronnie A.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
jewishreviewofbooks.com | Benjamin Balint |Deborah E. Lipstadt
Yale University Press 288 pp., $26 By her own admission, Golda Meir had “a pogrom complex.” In 1946, Golda, as everyone called her, testified in Jerusalem before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
time.news | Benjamin Balint
Creating Smart, Sustainable Light Poles for Urban Spaces: An Innovative Approach by Hadera Economic Company CEO Posted onDecember 10, 2023December 10, 2023
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
events.ceu.edu | Benjamin Balint
ABSTRACT | Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.
