Issue 15, Winter 2022
Please note: full articles are available only in Hebrew.
Editorial
Mor Geller
The Road to "Hole in the Moon"
Elad Wexler
"Queen Esther of the Third Reich": Leni Riefenstahl in 1930s Jewish Press
Jonathan Kaplan
Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan
From the movie: The Last of the Unjust, 2013
Abstract
The article examines Claude Lanzmann’s understanding of Nazi racial policy in Theresienstadt, and the ambivalent role played by Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein, one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Vienna. Lanzmann substantiates his position on the Judenrat of the Ghetto through a reconsideration of a 1975 interview with the head of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt, Dr. Murmelstein. The original interview was filmed during the work on Lanzmann's film Shoah. Three decades later, Lanzmann revisited and reedited the interview to establish his perception of politics and responsibility in the Ghetto. The article analyzes the outcome of this project, The Last of the Unjust (France/Austria, 2013), to decipher Lanzmann’s position and its changes in the past decades.