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A lackluster exhibit gives short shrift to Claude Lanzmann’s legacy — and to the Shoah’s victims

JL;DR SUMMARY The exhibition "The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes" at The New York Historical, intended to commemorate Claude Lanzmann's legacy, disappoints by failing to capture the gravity and scope of the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ShoahFortunoff Video ArchiveClaude LanzmannJewish Museum Of BerlinNew York Historical SocietyHolocaust ExhibitionVoices From The Shoah TapesAustrian Cultural Forum NycDocumentary ResearchLanzmann's Legacy

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"For reasons both political and cultural, its a worrying moment in history when New York City dedicates valuable gallery space to pale echoes of exhibits from German-speaking museums."
Austria
"Documents of Injustice: The Case of Freud at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Freud, his wife and his daughter Anna escaped from Austria to London, where he died 22 days after Hitler invaded Poland."
Lithuania
"he could exclude all of his research on the atrocities in Lithuania without significantly affecting the final 9-hour-long monument."
Germany
"concurrent display at the Jewish Museum of Berlin Claude Lanzmann: The Recordings."

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