They drew in secret, trading their art for scraps of food and hiding their paintings in jars and walls. But ultimately these Jewish artists working in concentration camps and ghettos during World War II created a record of their daily lives as Nazi prisoners. Their sketches and paintings documented the horrors they witnessed as well... […]
Across the countries, student protesters are demanding their university endowments “divest” from Israel. Brown University, where I am on the faculty, agreed last week to let students representing the protesters present a proposal to the corporation that runs the university to divest from funds “with companies associated with Israel’s military,” in exchange for them ending... […]