Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
-
Culture Leaving an Impression
In the fall of 2006, Michigan-based artist Lynne Avadenka went to the Bavarian town of Schwandorf for a six-week artists’ residency program. Never having been to Germany, she picked up a couple of books she thought might be useful in helping her prepare: a Baedeker guide to southern Germany, some secondhand German-English dictionaries and a…
-
Culture The Anti-Chagall
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust By Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett University of California Press, 412 pages, $39.95. Mayer Kirshenblatt was born in 1916 in the Polish town of Apt. In 1934, when he was 17, Mayer, his mother and his three siblings immigrated…
-
News Navigating the Wake of Ann Coulter’s ‘Perfect’ Storm
Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter ignited a firestorm last week, and she did it with a single word. In an October 8 appearance on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch, the ever-provocative Coulter said that what Christians ultimately want is for Jews to be “perfected” into Christians. “That,” she said, “is what Christianity is….
-
News Reluctantly Thrust Into Spotlight, Armenia Scholar Becomes Equal Opportunity Offender
Last week, while on his way to visit a friend in Watertown, Mass. — the Boston suburb that served as ground zero in last summer’s showdown between Armenian groups and the Anti-Defamation League over recognition of the Armenian Genocide — James Russell, a professor of Armenian studies at Harvard University, stopped at Arax, a popular…
-
News Armenian Genocide Bill Considered
As the House Foreign Affairs Committee sat down this week to consider House Resolution 106, a bill that would formally recognize the Armenian genocide, a range of Turkish officials warned that the bill’s passage could severely damage Ankara’s ties to both the United States and Israel. In an October 9 letter to President Bush, Turkish…
-
Culture Shaping a New Language
For the countries of eastern and east-central Europe, the early decades of the 20th century were a period of enormous ferment in the realms of both politics and design. As Europe’s great empires dissolved, the region’s writers and artists forged a radical new visual language: a geometric lingua franca stretching from Bucharest to Berlin, Tallinn…
-
News A Symbol of Religious Unity Rises in the Shadow of Wal-Mart
Under ordinary circumstances, Jews and Muslims sitting down to eat a ceremonial meal together would make for a notable achievement. But when an interfaith group sat down for dinner in Fayetteville, Ark., last Saturday — the Jews, to break the Yom Kippur fast; the Muslims, to mark the end of the 10th day of Ramadan…
-
Culture A Litvak’s Progress
In a conversation with the Forward’s Gabriel Sanders, Wisse discussed her own tale of linguistic adaptability, differing approaches to the language of the Bible and her take on Kabbalah. Gabriel Sanders: You begin your chapter with a discussion of Jewish Nobel laureates in literature and how striking their linguistic variety is. In considering your point,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
- 2
Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
- 3
Opinion An abominable new Israeli law is a death warrant for democracy
- 4
Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Film & TV This Christian conversion comedy should have left Jews out of it
-
Fast Forward Jewish families and a rabbi ask to join lawsuit to block Oklahoma Jewish charter school
-
Fast Forward Sponsors back out of festival that invited Kanye West to headline despite record of antisemitism
-
Fast Forward Wisconsin mosque leader detained by ICE in latest case tied to US antisemitism concerns
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
