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Book review: 'Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends' by Tom Segev
!["Revisionist" is a label that is sometimes used to praise and sometimes to bury a public intellectual. It is often applied to Israeli journalist and historian Tom Segev, who has courageously contrasted myth and reality when it comes to the Holocaust ("The Seventh Million"), the geopolitics of Palestine ("One Palestine, Complete") and the Arab-Israeli wars ("1949" and "1967"). To his credit, however, Segev has always relied on scholarship rather than spin when he invites his readers to look on the conventional wisdom of history and politics in a new light.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/56486227-01174619.jpg ""Revisionist\" is a label that is sometimes used to praise and sometimes to bury a public intellectual. It is often applied to Israeli journalist and historian Tom Segev, who has courageously contrasted myth and reality when it comes to the Holocaust (\"The Seventh Million\"), the geopolitics of Palestine (\"One Palestine, Complete\") and the Arab-Israeli wars (\"1949\" and \"1967\"). To his credit, however, Segev has always relied on scholarship rather than spin when he invites his readers to look on the conventional wisdom of history and politics in a new light.")
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Revisionist" is a label that is sometimes used to praise and sometimes to bury a public intellectual. It is often applied to Israeli journalist and historian Tom Segev, who has courageously contrasted myth and reality when it comes to the Holocaust ("The...Tags: Massacres, Criminals, Palestine, Los Angeles Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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Theater review: 'Elections and Erections' at UCLA, other venues
Culture MonsterPerformer, writer and tireless civil rights activist South African Pieter-Dirk Uys has walked the talk ??? in high heels. His alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, has dined with and dissed the powerful, including members of the African National Congress, the... -
Major Crimes Decline, LAPD Says
The Daily Mirror“I’m No Good … No Good … No Good!” June 12, 1960: The LAPD, which has kept detailed statistics for decades, finds that major crimes declined 5.7% in 1959 after a three-year increase. Of the 3,124 people who applied to be officers, 256 joined the... -
It's A Gray Area: Dachau death camp revisited
During the summer of 1965, between my junior and senior years at UCLA, I traveled to Western Europe with a friend and, among other things, visited the former concentration camp at Dachau, in the German state of Bavaria not far from Munich. This event...Tags: Business Trips, Newport Beach, Wars and Interventions, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Munich (Germany)
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Rough justice
AT FIRST, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's reaction to Saddam Hussein's imminent hanging sounds a little wishy-washy. Blair reiterated his own opposition to capital punishment but also said the sentence "does give us a very clear reminder of the...Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Death, Politics, Heads of State, Death Penalty
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The Ward Churchill verdict
Most Americans understand that protecting free speech means defending not only those who speak truth to power but those who hate us, scare us, revolt us or offend us.
The United States has upheld the right of Nazis to march through Jewish...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Nazi Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Colorado
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The Holocaust-era gumshoe
![At the moment, the current contretemps in American letters revolves around "The Kindly Ones," Jonathan Littell's mammoth, translated-from-French novel about the horrors of the Holocaust that's divided critics around the world considerably since its initial 2006 publication. Is it, as legendary editor Michael Korda would have it, "a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force," or, as per New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani's verdict, "willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent"?](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45542160-13161926.gif "At the moment, the current contretemps in American letters revolves around "The Kindly Ones,\" Jonathan Littell's mammoth, translated-from-French novel about the horrors of the Holocaust that's divided critics around the world considerably since its initial 2006 publication. Is it, as legendary editor Michael Korda would have it, \"a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force,\" or, as per New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani's verdict, \"willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent\"?")
At the moment, the current contretemps in American letters revolves around "The Kindly Ones," Jonathan Littell's mammoth, translated-from-French novel about the horrors of the Holocaust that's divided critics around the world considerably since its...Tags: Fiction, Death, Politics, Massacres, French Literature
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I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
![The latest addition to a formidable list of Holocaust-related documentaries, "I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal" provides a compelling look at the man whose persistent research and unflinching resolve led to the capture of 1,100 former Nazi officers.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-07/30989200.jpg "The latest addition to a formidable list of Holocaust-related documentaries, "I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal\" provides a compelling look at the man whose persistent research and unflinching resolve led to the capture of 1,100 former Nazi officers.")
Special to The TimesThe latest addition to a formidable list of Holocaust-related documentaries, "I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal" provides a compelling look at the man whose persistent research and unflinching resolve led to the capture...Tags: U.S. Army, Death, Politics, Society, War Crimes
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Siegfried Halbreich dies at 98; Holocaust survivor lectured on his experience
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSiegfried Halbreich, a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps who devoted the second half of his long life to public education about the horrors that Jews experienced during World War II, died of heart failure Wednesday at his Beverly Hills home. He...Tags: Witnesses, Health, Massacres, Criminals, Colleges and Universities
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Because we could not stop for death...
To shorten the long waits between a death penalty conviction and an execution 17 years in this state the California Supreme Court asked on Monday for a constitutional amendment that would let lower courts handle some of the load. The lengthy wait time...Tags: Laws, Georgia, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Criminals
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'The Kindly Ones,' by Jonathan Littell
The Kindly Ones
A Novel
Jonathan Littell, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Harper: 984 pp., $29.99
Literature has given us many unsympathetic protagonists yet relatively few genuine monsters: "Lolita's" Humbert Humbert, Shakespeare's...Tags: Death, Politics, Culture, Arts and Culture, Massacres
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Adolf Eichmann and the hunt for monsters
![On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46406588-20164151.jpg "On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial.\"")
On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf...Tags: War Crimes, Massacres, Central Intelligence Agency, Criminals, Israel
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