PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
-
Theater An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
-
Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
The actor and director shared the screen with Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman
-
Theater How often does Tim Blake Nelson think about ancient Greece?
The actor-writer-director talks about his new play, Kafka and antisemitism
-
Fast Forward A Jewish clothing brand is making Charlie Kirk yarmulkes
The $50 kippah’s proceeds will go to Jewish or pro-Israel causes
-
Books How Carole King moved the earth
Author Jane Eisner on her new book about the singer-songwriter’s endurance
-
Film & TV A dizzying Kafka biopic that isn’t really Kafkaesque
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’ imagines the author as a saint of modernity
-
Film & TV Seeking gangsters, must speak Yiddish: Bringing the Hasidic underworld to life in ‘Caught Stealing’
Motl Didner coached Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio and Carol Kane on their Yiddish scenes
-
Film & TV ‘Caught Stealing’ gives us tough, Hasidic drug lords — is it good for the Jews?
Darren Aronofsky’s nostalgic crime caper packs heat and Yiddish
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
- 2
Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
- 3
Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
- 4
Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful
-
Fast Forward Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month
-
Yiddish World How a Yiddish acting troupe fooled the Tsarist government
-
Fast Forward After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
