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...remaking his own movies - then Polanski is the very auteuriest. Even if he weren't drawn to pictures about hunted, holed-up men, he could hardly avoid the connection between iconography and autobiography, for his life is at least as notorious as his films. As a child, with his Jewish parents in concentration camps, he survived the Nazis by hiding and running. In Hollywood, his blond starlet wife Sharon Tate was slaughtered by Charles Manson's own Satanic gang. Then, after his great success with the knotty, despairing Chinatown (still his best film), there was his 1977 sexual encounter with...
...order to give context to the disembodied desire of his two lovers, Aciman references a bygone European past, but manages to trivialize it by reducing it to a simple, romantic picture of the Old Country. Both Clara and the protagonist come from an Eastern European, Jewish background and move about in a world with scattered references to Dostoevsky, Rilke, Rohmer, St. Petersburg, Bellagio and Byzantium—one that is faded around the edges like a sepia photograph...
Before coming to Harvard Hillel, Simon spent significant time in Israel, an experience to which he credits his decision to pursue a job in the Jewish community...
...time that was very meaningful and very special because I was doing extensive Jewish learning for the first time since my childhood,” Simon said...
Throughout his time at Harvard, Simon spearheaded many educational programs for students, including Netivot—a yearlong program for Jewish undergraduates that includes a trip to Israel. He has also served as an advisor for the Harvard Hillel’s Undergraduate Steering Committee...