Here are this week\u2019s signandsight infos:<\/p>\n
\nFrom the Feuilletons<\/h3>\n
Claude Lanzmann is in shock<\/a>: cinema-goers in Hamburg who wanted to see
\nhis film \u201cWhy Israel\u201d, were attacked by a mob to shouts of \u201cJewish
\npigs\u201d \u2013 and no one paid any attention. Jonathan Littell sends a
\nreportage from Chechnya, where reality is two bullets in the head.
\nLast week\u2019s interview with Imre Kertesz in Die Welt has sparked much
\nanti-Semitic spitting in Hungary, the German paper reports. And
\naccording to the SZ, Botticelli did more for male than female
\nsexuality: he introduced vulnerability.<\/p>\nMagazine Roundup<\/a><\/h3>\n
In OpenDemocracy, the Moscow poet Tatiana Sherbina tears her hair out
\nover Russia\u2019s obsession with Stalin. Polityka celebrates a film where
\nit\u2019s okay not to be heroic. The London Review of Books cements its
\nfriendship with Roland Barthes. In Espresso, Umberto Eco suggests
\nremoving Christ from classroom crucifixes. In the New York Review of
\nBooks, Timothy Garton Ash talks velvet and guillotines. Magyar Narancs
\ntalks candidly about the Roma. The New Yorker eats in secret with a
\nMichelin inspector. In Letras Libras, writer Cesar Aira explains why
\npeople shouldn\u2019t be forced to read. And Newsweek sings a swansong to
\nAmerica, the land of innovation.<\/p>\nThe \u2018execution\u2019 of a young Kurd<\/a><\/h3>\n
On November 11, Ehsan Fattahian, a 28-year old Kurdish freedom
\nfighter, was dealt \u2018sudden death\u2019 in a prison in the Kurdish province
\nof Iran. Nobody was present at the execution and no medical
\ncertificate was released. The same fate has befallen any number of
\ndemonstrators who took part in the protests after the elections, and
\nlays ahead for 12 other political prisoners in jails throughout Iran.
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