The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yhudim Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and an ethnoreligious group, originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation.Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos is equal to those born into it, have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
In Jewish tradition, Jewish ancestry is traced to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the second millennium BCE. The modern State of Israel defines itself as a Jewish state in its Basic Laws, and Israel's Law of Return states: "Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh." Israel is the only country where Jews are a majority of the population. Jews achieved political autonomy twice before in ancient history. The first of these periods lasted from 1350 to 586 BCE, and encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with the destruction of the First Temple. The second was the period of the Hasmonean Kingdom spanning from 140 to 37 BCE. Since the destruction of the First Temple, most Jews have lived in diaspora. A minority in every country in which they live (except Israel), they have frequently experienced persecution throughout history, resulting in a population that has fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.
Come Pray With The Mantis
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An intimate ballad following the lives of a mother and daughter who go through topsy-turvy historical times. The plot is divided into four seasons set between 1939 and 1961. A Czech woman named Helga works at a German hospital. Out of her love for a Baltic nobleman named Arno, a volunteer in the Finnish War, her daughter Dorli is born. But Arno commits suicide and after the war is over mother and daughter must bear the victors' revenge alone - Helga is humiliated and expelled from her native region. Mother and daughter survive thanks only to the aid of the Jewish head doctor of the hospital. Years later Arno's body is exhumed and Dorli, who has always felt close to him, wants to trace her father's roots. She and a Greek boy try to escape but Communist repression spoils their plans. In order to protect her daughter, Helga puts herself at the mercy of a secret police torturer.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, africa, based-on-novel, border-region, collaboration-with-communist, communist, convent, czechoslovakian-history
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A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anti-semitism, assault-rifle, atrocity, attacking-someone-in-a-wheelchair, attic, based-on-autobiography, based-on-true-story, bathtub
Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Father: Well, to tell you the truth, I thought it would be worse.
Halina: Have you seen this?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: [impatient] What? What? I'm working. What? What is this?::Halina: It's where they're going to put us.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: What do you mean "put us"?
Mother: [crying] 20 zloty, that's all we have left, 20 zolty. What can I buy with 20 zloty? I am sick of cooking potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: I don't know how to thank you.::Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe.
[Szpilman is discovered by the Polish army, wearing the German dress coat given him by Capt. Hosenfeld]::Wladyslaw Szpilman: No. Please. I'm Polish. I'm not a German.::Polish Soldier: Then why the fucking coat?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: I'm cold.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: It's an official decree, no Jews allowed in the parks.::Dorota: What, are you joking?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: No, I'm not. I would suggest we sit down on a bench, but that's also an official decree, no Jews allowed on benches.::Dorota: This is absurd.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: So, we should just stand here and talk, I don't think we're not allowed to do that.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: So, you play the cello, Dorota. That's nice. And who's your favorite composer? Chopin? Really? Well, you'll have to learn to play his cello sonata, won't you? And what about you, Wladek? Well, perhaps I can accompany? Me on the piano, you on the cello?::Dorota: Mr. Szpilman, you are quite, quite wonderful.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: [kisses Dorota's hand] Call me Wladek. Please.
Jurek: [after Dorota meets Wladek] Come on Dorota, you can write him a fan letter later, this isn't the best time. Come on.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Jurek! Where have you been hiding her?
Father: What do you think? Should I, should I take Uncle Szymon's portrait?::Mother: Take it, don't take it, take what you like!::[sigh]::Mother: Can't you see I'm worried sick?
[first lines]::Dorota: [running from bombing] Mr. Szpilman?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Hello.::Dorota: Oh, I came specially to meet you. I love your playing.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Who are you?::Dorota: My name is Dorota. I, I'm Jurek's sister... You're bleeding.
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It is the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria does not like what is going on during the "Auto De Fe". When she speaks out, she is arrested and accused of being a witch. Torquemada has plans for her! He orders her tortured, and her tongue to be cut out. Her husband attempts to free her...
Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, accuser, baker, based-on-story, based-on-the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe, betrayal, blade, blasphemy, blood
A bizarre descent into hell from the creator of re-animator.
[As Torquemada has the Cardinal bricked behind a wall]::Cardinal: For the love of God!::Torquemada: Yes, for the love of God.
Torquemada: Take them to their cells.::Maria: You swore you'd show mercy!::Torquemada: In this place, death is mercy.
Mendoza: Savior.::Torquemada: What are you doing here? Why don't you go torture some heretics!
Francisco: I'm sorry, mistress, that you weren't properly able to confess. There just wasn't enough time to torture you.::Esmeralda: Thanks anyway.
Torquemada: Surely Rome understands that public executions discourage sin?::Cardinal: The good Lord, you know, padre, he want us to love our neighbor, no roast him, mmm? No roast him ...
Dr. Heusos: You idiots, why did you tear out her tongue?::Gomez: We didn't. We don't do tongues.::Francisco: Of course not. How can they confess if they don't have tongues?
Cardinal: No!::Gomez: No!::Cardinal: No, I tell you, I havea de seal of de Pope!::Gomez: Oh! He hasa de seal of de Pope!::Cardinal: NO! Help me!::Gomez: Help me!::Cardinal: Someone help me!::Gomez: Someone help me!::Cardinal: No! No, I tell you! No, Help me! Help me someone!
Cardinal: The Pope also want the Inquisition to stop the use of torture. And declare an amnesty on all heretics and witches. Hmm?::Torquemada: Rome is behind the times. His Holiness is old and lost his zeal!::Cardinal: He is the Pope!::Torquemada: And I am the Inquisition!::Cardinal: His Holiness also DEMAND...order you to return to Rome with me for an audience.::Torquemada: I've received no such demand.::Cardinal: [chuckles] I just deliver it!
Cardinal: [about to be killed] No!::Gomez: Yes!
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Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag. The neighboring village is abandoned by the Jews, who left only few steps ahead of advancing Cossacks. Soon the inn is full of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit.
Keywords: based-on-novel, jewish, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, male-rear-nudity, nudity, skinny-dipping, world-war-one
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Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?
Keywords: adulterous-wife, based-on-play, brutality, character-study, despair, military, one-word-title, soldier, underdog, uniform
Marie: [to her man during a fight] I'd rather have a knife in my body than your hand on me.
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The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
Keywords: based-on-novel, communism, post-war