by Matthew Friedman | Jul 10, 2024 | Arts, Dossier, Essays
At the end Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis, Kaiser Uberall accepts his fate: he will be sacrificed to restore the balance of life and death that his own arrogance and brutality so tragically upset. It is one of the most powerful moments in 20th century...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 4, 2019 | Dossier, Essay
by Matthew Friedman | Mar 7, 2019 | Dossier, Uncategorized
The Stars and Stripes stand to the right of the Ark on the bimah at my local shul in the Chicago suburbs; the Degel Yisra’el, the blue-and-white flag of the State of Israel, stands to its left. It’s just another Shabbat in the diaspora. The...
