Allan M. Jalon is a New York-based arts reporter who writes regularly for the Forward. His work, which has won several awards, has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Allan M. Jalon
By Allan M. Jalon
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Music How To Listen to Tchaikovsky While Looking Past His Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky was born on this day in May 7, 1840. Here’s a look at the brilliant composer’s complicated history: When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a Russian-style cafe in midtown Manhattan to discuss the upcoming Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky festival at the New York Philharmonic, I handed the conductor a one-page…
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Art Why Did This Pioneering Trustee Leave LACMA And Place His Prized Collection With The Getty?
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series about the work and art of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms. Read Part I here. Dr. Richard A. Simms devoted himself to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 33 years. From the time it…
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Culture The Odyssey Of Dr. Richard Simms — An Art Collector Like No Other
Editor’s Note: This is the first story in a series about the work and art of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms. Read Part II here. When Richard A. Simms told his grandmother that he wanted to become an artist, she fired back, “No, boy, you will…
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Culture Leonard Bernstein: Classical Music’s Jewish Walt Whitman At 100
There’s a theory that Walt Whitman’s memory rises in public awareness when his ideal of inclusive democracy sinks from view, that it returns us to our faith that all Americans can become parts of the whole. The same might be said of Leonard Bernstein, who was surely the most Whitmanesque figure that America ever gave…
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Art Why Käthe Kollwitz’s Art Remains Shockingly Resonant 150 Years Later
When a Jewish businessman in Cologne, Germany, named Franz Levy died in 1937, his family commissioned the renowned German artist Käthe Kollwitz to design his gravestone. Kollwitz, who was not Jewish, sculpted pairs of hands reaching in subtle relief from opposite sides of the stone surface, fingers gripping wrists, holding on. It arouses a feeling…
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Culture Exclusive Story Of Paul Newman’s Lost Film Now An Award Finalist
Editor’s Note: Allan M. Jalon’s story on the rediscovery of Paul Newman’s film “On The Harmfulness Of Tobacco” has been named a finalist for the Deadline Club Awards in the category of arts reporting. You can read the entire story here. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s…
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Culture Paul Newman’s Long Lost Film’s National Debut In Doubt
Jack Garfein, who holds what is believed to be the only print of a recently rediscovered film directed by Paul Newman, has pulled out of a deal shaped in over a year of talks with Turner Classic Movies, the Forward has learned. The film, whose discovery was first reported by the Forward, was set to…
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Film & TV Why Lincoln Center’s Paul Newman Screening Is A Must-See
When Nicolas Rapold, editor of Film Comment, sits down on Monday February 20 for a Q & A with the director-acting teacher Jack Garfein and the composer David Amram during a program of films called “Newman Directs,” he will be speaking with two 86-year-old men with unusually interesting things to say about the evening’s subject…
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