Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor.
Benjamin Ivry
By Benjamin Ivry
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Culture As ‘Death of a Salesman’ returns to Broadway, the question remains — how Jewish is Willy Loman?
Arthur Miller's doomed and delusional protagonist has been seen as both a crypto-Jew and an American everyman
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Books Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
A recent acquisition by Cambridge University will burnish the reputation of Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy
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Culture A comet is streaking across our solar system — is it an omen for Jews?
Recent sightings of 3I/ATLAS have sparked discussions of Jewish hopes and fears about extraterrestrial life
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Culture Has the Jewish joke become an endangered species — Òu sont les blagues d’antan?
In 'The Last Jewish Joke,' eminent Parisian sociologist Michel Wieviorka laments the passing of an era in Jewish humor
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Film & TV 100 years later, just how Jewish was Peter Sellers?
The great comedian, who would have turned 100 this year, lived at a time when performers were more discreet about their Jewishness
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Culture For barbraphiles and Streisand fanatics, a plethora of babtastic barbrabilia
An auction features 100,000 items from what's being billed as the world's largest collection of Barbra Streisand memorabilia
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Film & TV Why Jews will miss the Corporation for Public Broadcasting terribly
Targeted by Trump, CPB — which helped bring us documentaries about Jewish culture as well as 'Sesame Street' — will close next year
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Culture A voice for his generation, Tom Lehrer found laughter even in the most sensitive aspects of Jewish life and history
Lehrer, who famously left show business behind to teach, has died at 97
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