"The Painted Bird," the first-ever movie in Slavic Esperanto - a created language - premiered at the Venice film festival this week. Set somewhere in rural eastern Europe towards the end of World ...

(JTA) — Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 Holocaust novel “The Painted Bird” was mired in controversy almost from its release. The film adaptation, which became available through on-demand platforms ...

Kosiński was a Polish-American who lived through World War II as a Jewish boy, writing in his adulthood to process such trauma. While “The Painted Bird” is largely fictional, Kosiński attributes it as ...