Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann’s late son wanted his sperm to be used to father a child. A European court said no.

The filmmaker’s widow, Dominique Petithory Lanzmann, had reportedly sought to have her son’s sperm transferred to a fertility clinic in Israel to fulfill his final wish.

Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker behind famed Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92

The French Jew's exhaustive focus on survivor testimony changed the way the genocide was depicted on screen and in collective memory.

Claude Lanzmann accuses top Berlin hotel of removing Israel from phone list

The famous director's assertion has provoked a storm of controversy and drawn a firm denial from Hotel Bristol Kempinski.

Culture

5 incredible Jewish stories behind this year’s Oscars

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2 shorts up for Oscars look at Claude Lanzmann, Palestinian nuns

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When Claude Lanzmann turned his lens on a rabbi who answered to Eichmann

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French politicians, clergymen support petition defending circumcision

Culture

Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann honored at Berlin Film Festival

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