Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

1 month ago | lilith.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

By now, I hope you have seen “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg’s feature detailing the relationship and experience of two estranged cousins touring (once) Jewish Poland at the behest and expense of their late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. If you have not, let me sell it to you with the observation that sold it for me: a Holocaust movie without any fucking lessons. Life is Beautiful this is not: it’s not even Schindler’s List.

Sep 1, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

Review Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans. Kassow CITETHIS Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel Kassow (White Goat Press, 2024). 413 pages. $32.95. On July 26th, 1942, Rokhl Auerbach handed what she believed to be her life’s work—collected writings, interviews, and ephemera, from inside the Warsaw Ghetto—to Emmanuel Ringelblum. Liquidation of the ghetto had begun four days earlier.

May 9, 2024 | lilith.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

I really need Bess Kalb to make me laugh. I’m not concerned that she won’t, to be clear. Bess is—famously—very, very funny. This is a deeper, more primal need; a decently selfish desire borne out of seven months (and counting) of not having very much of anything to laugh at. I know I’m about to conduct an interview on behalf of a magazine. I know this isn’t about me. And still—I highlight the date of our conversation on my calendar with a few different colors.

Apr 16, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

Blog Yiddish and the Jewish Voice in The Zone of Interest CITETHIS Still from The Zone of Inter­est (2023), cour­tesy of A24. A little over an hour into Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, the wind shifts. A Polish woman living a few miles downwind of Auschwitz catches the breeze as it passes through her curtains and into her darkened kitchen.

Nov 2, 2023 | lilith.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

Cormac McCarthy’s penultimate novel, The Passenger, follows a man named Bobby Western as he meanders and rambles from New Orleans to Tennessee to Europe and back, thinking equally about his brilliant sister and the end of mankind. In December, a slim companion text followed: Stella Maris, tracking conversations between Bobby’s sister, Alicia, and her psychiatrist during her final year of life leading up to her suicide (an event which opens The Passenger).