Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1) 3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3) 4. Madame Sarah, Skinner (4) 5. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (6) 7. Disraeli, Blake (7) 8. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 9. Inside South America, Gunther (9) 10. Treblinka, Steiner...
TREBLINKA, by Jean-Francois Steiner. Author Steiner's odd theories about the Jews have ignited controversy, but his dramatized version of the uprising by inmates at Poland's infamous concentration camp is icily restrained...
...Steiner has some odd theories about the Jews and their supposed fatalism and submissiveness. But on the whole his tone is ice-cold and almost detached. Scene after scene makes explicit what it must have been like to labor in a camp of death...
TREBLINKA by Jean-François Steiner. 415 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...book ignited controversy when it was published in France (TIME, April 29, 1966), largely because Author Steiner, who is now only 29, seemed to be arguing that many Jews permitted themselves to be murdered by the Nazis without significant resistance, and that a good number of the others sent their fellow slaves to death in order to save their own lives. Steiner, whose Parisian father perished in a concentration camp, says that he felt "the shame of being one of the sons of this people." He interviewed survivors from the Treblinka death factory in Poland to re-create the horror...