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 A Lee Krasner Painting Just Sold For $11.6 Million. But Its 1990 Theft Is Still Unsolved.
The great abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner had no shortage of drama in her life. Krasner, known for her bold, gestural work, was a celebrated female artist at a time when her field was dominated by men. She continued to stand out at the time of her death in 1984, that year becoming one of…
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Culture The Last Of Kafka’s Papers Arrive In Israel – Some In Hebrew
Perhaps no one defied the wishes of a dead friend as flagrantly as Max Brod. In 1924, the author Franz Kafka died after a years-long battle with tuberculosis, leaving Brod, his confidant and fellow writer, with orders to burn his unpublished work. Brod did not comply, spending the rest of his life publishing the words…
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Culture This Doctor Has The World’s Largest Collection Of Jewish Baseball Cards
The annals of baseball history are rife with Jews of exceptional ability, from Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg to modern sluggers Kevin Youkilis and Astros All-Star Alex Bregman. Less remembered are the Chosen People’s baseball diamond duds, remarkable for something other than their athletic prowess. But even also-ran baserunners deserve a custodian. Enter Doctor Seymour…
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Culture Toni Morrison Is Dead At 88. Here’s How The World Is Honoring Her.
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, whose work gave moving voice to the African American experience, died August 5 at the age of 88. Morrison’s death, announced this morning by her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, is already drawing an outpouring of tributes, with many emphasizing Morrison’s abiding interest in empathy and the pernicious…
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Culture Did Der Spiegel Run An Anti-Semitic Magazine Cover?
Critics ranging from the U.S. ambassador to Germany to the Central Council of Jews in Germany have accused the German news magazine Der Spiegel of printing an anti-Semitic cover for an issue about the country’s Jewish community. The cover for the August historical issue, titled “Jewish Life in Germany: The unknown World next door,” shows…
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Culture Seven Decades Later, A Violin – And Its Story Of The Shoah – Finds Its Way Home
In 1943, with the Nazi deportation of Amsterdam’s Jews well under way, Bram Rodrigues and his father, Marcel, decided to flee the Netherlands. But before they left, Bram, who was 18 at the time, visited his friend Johnny de Haan, and asked him for a favor. Bram gave Johnny his violin — his most prized…
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Culture It’s Confirmed: Ruby Rose’s Batwoman Will Be Jewish In New TV Series
When the CW announced last August that gender fluid actor Ruby Rose would play Batwoman in a forthcoming series, some corners of the internet expressed concern that Rose, while queer like the character, is not, also like the character, Jewish. While it has yet to be reported if Rose has taken to the mikveh, “Batwoman”…
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Culture From Diller To Zuckerberg, Here’s What Jewish Execs Are Reading This Summer
What books do some of the world’s busiest Jews crack open in their summer downtime? Not exactly beach reads. NBC reporter Dylan Byers launched his “first annual Byers Market Summer Reading List” August 2, touting exclusive recs from Silicon Valley and Hollywood types from Facebook Chiefs Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, to top William Morris…
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