

Hold your cursor and you can move to any location, then change pictures and do the same. Look at the photos full screen and you’ll feel as though you are really there. The following is about the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

In 1981, Greene won the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, a high honor. The subsequent film, “Brighton Rock,” starring Richard Attenborough, did not suggest that Colleoni was Jewish.Ĭarey’s conclusion: “In retrospect it seems regrettable that Greene should have published material that allowed such inferences to be drawn at a time when the persecution of Jews in Germany was already well advanced and many refugees were seeking asylum abroad.” Professor Carey comments: Hitler “would have applauded Greene’s portrait of Colleoni….” In another of Greene’s “entertainments,” “Brighton Rock,” there’s a Jewish gang leader named Colleoni: “He looked as a man might look who owned the whole world…the cash registers and the policemen, Parliament and the laws which say ‘This is Right and this is Wrong.'” Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories In one of them, “A Gun for Sale,” there’s a “venomous Jewish industrialist, Sir Marcus, in league with international Jewish financiers and armaments manufacturers.” The Hollywood film made from the book, “This Gun for Hire,” with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, did not identify the evil industrialist’s religion or ethnicity. Greene admitted to a predilection for shady places and Batista’s Havana offered plenty.

Occasionally Greene would write “entertainments”-thrillers.
