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 Evgeny Kissin Became a One-Man Yiddish Pride Movement
In a poem Evgeny Kissin wrote in Yiddish, he looks forward to the Jewish program he’s set to perform on December 16 at Carnegie Hall: In Kenedi-Tsenter af yidish hob ikh shoyn geshalt, / un opgeshatst hobm es hoykh i a yid, i a goy / Kh’vel es ton in kumendikn yor oykh in Karnegi…
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Culture How Marlon Brando Became Godfather to the Jews
Shortly into “Listen to Me Marlon,” a fascinating new documentary about Marlon Brando spoken almost completely in his own voice, comes a startling glimpse of Brando’s life-changing plunge into the Jewish experience of the 20th century. Drawn largely from diaristic audio tapes he made, combined with a wide range of cinematic imagery, the ruminations start…
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Culture On Alexandre, the Greatest Jewish Composer You’ve Never Heard of
When “Ida” received the Oscar for best foreign film, it put a global spotlight on a Polish story about that nation’s struggle to face Jewish memories from the Nazi era. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Philharmonic gave a concert that touched on these themes in a different way. The orchestra performed the long-awaited American…
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News My Opa’s story of World War I’s other fight
If the war was the 20th Century's original sin, it started in the east
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Culture A New Jersey Tale of Two Alfred Doblins — and One Umlaut
I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with a trim beard and a startling name: Alfred Doblin. They were discussing Chris Christie and the Bridgegate scandal. Maddow described her guest as the editorial page editor of the Bergen Record, a New Jersey…
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