What an amazing historical figure - the works in that living room photo are some of the most important works of modern art. Love how they were able to control the PIcasso market because nobody else wanted him. Doh!
I know she is Jewish, thanks for stating the obvious though. In my original post you seem to have missed that my second sentence was a question not a statement (the answer to which is 'no' as I've since discovered). Regardless of her motives she was still collaborated with France's Vichy government through Bernard Fay, was an admirer of Philippe Petain and agreed to translate around 180 pages of his anti-Semitic speeches into English.
Cont....Those against Stein would point out that she could have left France and returned to America (she was never interned) whilst also noting that she provided a positive character statement to an imprisoned Bernard Fay just AFTER the war. Also you state that France was Nazi occupied during both wars which is incorrect as the Nazis weren't formed until 1920. What academics do agree on though is that she was actually staunchly conservative which is something of a paradox.
Regarding Gertrude Stein, she did NOT collaborate with the Vichy government. She was, it's true, friends with Bernard Faÿ, who she met in 1926. He translated a few of her works and arranged her tour in the US in 1934. It's true that he collaborated. He basically denounced the Free Masons. He did not denounce Jews in particular, but since some Jews were Free Masons, they were denunced for being Free Masons. Hitler was anti Free Masons, Gypsies, the mentally ill, the crippled, homosexuals, Jews, and any one who did not support him. At the beginning of WWll, Stein like the entire 40 million population of France, including the Jewish population and Jews who held high positions, ALL believed Marshal Pétain was the country's savior. He had saved France before. Faÿ and The Franco American ____ asked Stein to translate the speeches in an attemspt to sway the US to side with France. The speeches did not contain, as a Professor of Jewish History claims they did, any mention of the fate of the Jews. This professor confused the speeches with the Statut des Juifs (Jewish Law 1940 and 1941) which did mention their fate, but Stein did not translate the Jewish Laws and one would think that a Professor of Jewish History would know the difference before he condemned Stein. In fact most of the condemnations, including one by a Jewish lawyer and a Jewish Councilman, have come from people who, it seems, have never read any of the Stein biographies or any of Stein's work. They have based their comdemations on two books, one pitched by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (To Be Continued)
I dont like the family Stein , there is Gert,there is Ep, there is Ein .Gerts writing is bunk,Eps statues are junk,and nobody understands Ein!.Quoted from a BBC radio programme broadcast by the most revered radio presenter .Desmond Carrington.God Bless Him !
What an amazing historical figure - the works in that living room photo are some of the most important works of modern art. Love how they were able to control the PIcasso market because nobody else wanted him. Doh!
You can get it at any larger DVD store like Amazon, SendIt, etc.
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its right here on youtube in parts, look it up :)
If anyone has their hands on a copy of this film. I would love if ud share
is the narrator juliet stevenson? absolutely lovely.
I know she is Jewish, thanks for stating the obvious though. In my original post you seem to have missed that my second sentence was a question not a statement (the answer to which is 'no' as I've since discovered). Regardless of her motives she was still collaborated with France's Vichy government through Bernard Fay, was an admirer of Philippe Petain and agreed to translate around 180 pages of his anti-Semitic speeches into English.
Cont....Those against Stein would point out that she could have left France and returned to America (she was never interned) whilst also noting that she provided a positive character statement to an imprisoned Bernard Fay just AFTER the war. Also you state that France was Nazi occupied during both wars which is incorrect as the Nazis weren't formed until 1920. What academics do agree on though is that she was actually staunchly conservative which is something of a paradox.
@birkenkrahe I think she is
It should read, The Franco American Committee, sorry.
Dr. Quinn? or maybe Emma Thompson...
Of course she had to write for a living.You don't go far from home when your on the rag every month.
Regarding Gertrude Stein, she did NOT collaborate with the Vichy government. She was, it's true, friends with Bernard Faÿ, who she met in 1926. He translated a few of her works and arranged her tour in the US in 1934. It's true that he collaborated. He basically denounced the Free Masons. He did not denounce Jews in particular, but since some Jews were Free Masons, they were denunced for being Free Masons. Hitler was anti Free Masons, Gypsies, the mentally ill, the crippled, homosexuals, Jews, and any one who did not support him. At the beginning of WWll, Stein like the entire 40 million population of France, including the Jewish population and Jews who held high positions, ALL believed Marshal Pétain was the country's savior. He had saved France before. Faÿ and The Franco American ____ asked Stein to translate the speeches in an attemspt to sway the US to side with France. The speeches did not contain, as a Professor of Jewish History claims they did, any mention of the fate of the Jews. This professor confused the speeches with the Statut des Juifs (Jewish Law 1940 and 1941) which did mention their fate, but Stein did not translate the Jewish Laws and one would think that a Professor of Jewish History would know the difference before he condemned Stein. In fact most of the condemnations, including one by a Jewish lawyer and a Jewish Councilman, have come from people who, it seems, have never read any of the Stein biographies or any of Stein's work. They have based their comdemations on two books, one pitched by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (To Be Continued)
I dont like the family Stein , there is Gert,there is Ep, there is Ein .Gerts writing is bunk,Eps statues are junk,and nobody understands Ein!.Quoted from a BBC radio programme broadcast by the most revered radio presenter .Desmond Carrington.God Bless Him !