PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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Culture Recovered Sobibor photos tell a striking story of complicity
The Nazis leveled the Sobibor death camp, located around 120 miles to the southeast of Warsaw, in 1943, after 600 prisoners killed a dozen members of the SS in an October uprising. The Reich ordered the camp closed down, and the surviving officers and auxiliary guards destroyed the evidence of the atrocities committed there since…
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Culture In first trailer, ‘The Plot Against America’ looks to rewrite the book
The story goes that Philip Roth was reading the autobiography of historian Arthur Schlesinger, when he stopped short. ”I came upon a sentence in which Schlesinger notes that there were some Republican isolationists who wanted to run Lindbergh for president in 1940,” Roth recalled in 2004. “That’s all there was, that one sentence with its…
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Culture Auschwitz exhibition strikes New York archbishop silent
One day after the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, faith leaders from around New York City gathered to view artifacts from the former death camp. “We are very focused on being part of a broader effort to educate people of all faiths,” said Jack Kliger, the president and CEO of the Museum of…
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Culture A ‘2001’ exhibit that leaves them wondering — like Kubrick would have wanted
When “2001: A Space Odyssey” debuted in 1968, 15 months before the first lunar landing, audiences didn’t know what to make of it. Its early reception was far from fawning. Director Stanley Kubrick‘s daughter Katharina recalls storage boxes full of mail from viewers requesting ticket refunds. But the film’s fortunes soon changed. Theaters in major…
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Culture What does Michael Bolton’s book tell us about Ukraine?
On Sunday, the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump was upended by news that former White House national security adviser John R. Bolton’s forthcoming book, “The Room Where It Happened,” makes explicit the link between the president’s release of security aid to Ukraine and an investigation of his 2020 opponent Joseph R. Biden. The…
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Culture The weirdest — and Jew-iest — moment from the Grammys
In a largely somber Grammys — brimming with mourning, green skulls and a profusion of fire — there was one outstanding moment of unexpected (if unintended) levity. In a star-studded and treacly musical theater montage, Camila Cabello, Cyndi Lauper, Common, Ben Platt and a crew of arts high school students serenaded departing Grammys producer Ken…
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Culture Meet the woman with the most Oscars ever
Edith Head had the look. She clothed Hollywood’s most glamorous, gifting Dorothy Lamour her trademark sarong, cloaking Kim Novak in a pristine white winter coat (collar popped), and making the grubby Great Depression look snappy with striped and checkered suits for Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting.” Her knack for understanding the fusion…
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Culture Germany to honor 1700 years of Jewish culture in 2021
“German society, we have an increasing anti-Semitism here,” said Andrei Kovacs. “You can feel it as a Jew. I can feel it on my skin.” But Kovacs, a Romanian immigrant to Germany, has a plan to combat that bigotry: He’s the executive director of a government-backed effort to highlight the deep roots Jews have in…
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