Jake Romm
By Jake Romm
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Culture You Will Soon Be Able To Visit Rome’s Jewish Catacombs
Cemeteries are naturally spooky places – fields littered with old gray stones marking dead bodies. But you know what’s spookier than cemeteries? Catacombs, those underground passages filled with human remains. For those of us that find such places more interesting than scary or disgusting, there was recently some good news out of Rome. As the…
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Culture Mass-Reproduction Is Changing The Experience of Art. Mark Rothko Is Here To Help.
There is something that happens to a work of art when it becomes absorbed into posterity – its copies and reproductions begin to rapidly grow in number. Reproductions will always (obviously) outnumber the original, but in the case of famous works of art, they do so in such a great number that the aesthetic status of…
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Culture 6 Films To Watch At The New York Jewish Film Festival
On January 11th, in partnership with the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Jewish Film Festival will return for its 26th edition. The festival offers a varied look at the world of Jewish film, both in terms of genre and time period. In addition to the newer films that make up…
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Art The Art World Responds To Trump’s Inauguration With A Call For Strikes
If, on January 20th, you intended to drown out the second rate fanfare of Trump’s inauguration ceremony by getting some culture of a different kind, well, you may be in trouble. The New York Times reported on Sunday that a number of prominent artists and critics have signed a statement in support of a general…
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Culture Meet the Women on the Frontlines Against ISIS — and Their Jewish Predecessors
Stop the presses, the best news item of 2017 has already been written. The Independent reported earlier this week that the “Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) is both widening its operations to include Arab women who want to join the fight against ISIS and stepping up its military assault on the extremists’ de facto capital…
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Culture After the Holocaust, Only This Young Composer’s Music Survived
One of the greatest tragedies of the Holocaust (itself the greatest tragedy of modern history) is the irreplaceable loss of talent – not just of the people who were murdered, but also the works, discoveries and inventions that were murdered along with them. Earlier today, the Boston Globe published a story about one of those myriad…
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Culture ‘Mein Kampf’ Is Back — And There Are Reasons To Worry About That
Yesterday, news broke that the new annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” had become a non-fiction best seller in Germany with around 85,000 copies sold. The book had previously been banned from publication in the country (though it could still legally be read if a copy could be found). But in 2015, the copyright,…
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Culture Joseph Roth’s ‘The Hotel Years’ Is A Mirror Of Our Times
Although Joseph Roth’s “The Hotel Years” first appeared in 2015, the beginning of 2017 seems, unfortunately, to be the perfect time to open the text. The book is a collection of short pieces that Roth, one of the preeminent journalists of his time (at one point, the Frankfurter Zeitung was paying him at the staggering…
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