Allan M. Jalon
By Allan M. Jalon
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Art How a Jewish family and a museum are honoring an artist whose work remains nothing short of devastating
A long-overdue exhibit at MoMA about Kaethe Kollwitz, offers an unforgettable meditation on violence and war
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Music A dream of a utopian Black-Jewish music collaboration is going forward — even after the war in Gaza complicated it
'Generate Music' was conceived as a way to confront American bigotry
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Culture How Franz Kafka can help us understand the history of segregation in America
In Kafka's work, scholars have found a connection to the Black experience in the 20th century
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Culture He was the heir apparent to Franz Kafka and Ralph Ellison and pioneered the idea of ‘wokeness’ — how did he just disappear?
For decades, Barry Beckham — whose baseball novel 'Runner Mack' was inspired by Kafka — has been hiding in plain sight
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Culture How Arnold Schoenberg leapt into the future and created a new musical form
Known for being a cerebral theorist, the composer gave voice to human heartbreak
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Culture Martin Buber’s ‘I and Thou’ inspired Martin Luther King and Allen Ginsberg — can it still speak to us today?
The 100-page book was more than a bestseller; it became a manifesto for existence
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Film & TV For Paul Newman’s 98th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Until the Forward tracked it down, "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco" had been all but forgotten
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Culture A New Jersey tale of two Alfred Doblins — and one umlaut
Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection to another Alfred Doblin. I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with…
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