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Global Events

Notices of events that are meant for a broad audience of students, scholars, and educated nonacademics with an interest in Europe. Such occasions could include art exhibitions, performances, screenings and/or other cultural and educational opportunities relating to Austria, Central Europe, and other lands with a Habsburg heritage.

United States

Festival of Jewish Films

"Two or Three Things I Know About Him" is a compelling documentary about Hitler’s top executioner in Slovakia, filmed by the Nazi officer’s son. It screens at 7:15 pm. November 6-8 at the Oak St. Cinema, opening a month-long Jewish film series, "From the Coen Brothers to Eastern Europe," that runs through November 22. Onscreen, the filmmaker confronts his confronts his mother and siblings in a tense family drama of denial and reality. Who really was this Dad, who sent thousands of Jews to the gas chamber? Most films are from Central and Eastern Europe. For further details on this and the other films, go to the website www.mnfilmarts.org,