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 Remembering Else Ury, Famed Children’s Writer And Victim Of The Holocaust
Among the books outlawed by the Nazis were the widely-read children’s books of Else Ury. The Third Reich ended Ury’s career as part of their purge of “degenerate” art, and within seven years of that censorship she was killed at Auschwitz. But Ury’s beloved character Annemarie Braun, known as “Nesthäkchen,” a blonde-haired, blue-eyed young woman…
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Culture In ‘Shangri-La’ Rick Rubin’s Genius Gets A Spiritual Shrug
For over three decades, Rick Rubin has been a fabled figure in popular music – and he looks the part. Coiffed like a Stoic philosopher or a traditional representation of the Judeo-Christian god with a nimbus of wispy hair and a chest-length beard, eyes often shielded behind sunglasses, Rubin presents a legendary character: a Jewish…
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Culture Michael Seidenberg, Who Ran New York’s Most Remarkable Secret Bookstore, Dies At 64
Michael Seidenberg, the affable, bearded bookseller who launched a secret literary salon in his Upper East Side apartment, died July 8 at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut. He was 64. His widow, Nicky Roe, told The New York Times that the cause of Seidenberg’s death was heart failure. Born in Brooklyn on July 22, 1954…
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Culture Kubrick’s Personal ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Script To Be Displayed At Museum Of The Jewish People
July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. While most accept the arrival of the shuttle on the lunar surface four days later as a watershed moment in space exploration, a few cranks hold to the idea that the landing was staged and filmed by director Stanley Kubrick. This theory has…
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Culture Remains Of Charles Levin, Actor Who Played ‘Seinfeld’ Mohel, Believed Found In Oregon
Nearly a week after Charles Levin was reported missing, authorities believe they have located the remains of the actor who is perhaps best known for his turn as a neurotic mohel on “Seinfeld.” According to The Oregonian, a body believed to be that of the 70-year-old actor was found near a remote road in the…
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Culture New Screenplays Show Stanley Kubrick’s Fascination With Troubled Marriages
Three never-before-seen screenplays by Stanley Kubrick lend new insight into the filmmaker’s early career – and possibly his second marriage. The scripts, which are sketches for longer projects that never materialized, were recently found in Kubrick’s home where his widow, Christiane Kubrick, still lives. The Guardian reports that the pages were transferred to Kubrick’s archive…
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Culture Sophia Loren Will Play A Holocaust Survivor – Again
Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren will play a Holocaust survivor in her first film in a decade. The film, titled “La Vita Davanti a Sé” (“The Life Ahead”), is directed by Loren’s son Edoardo Ponti, and is based on French novelist, aviator and diplomat Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us,” which he published under…
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Culture Items From The Anne Frank House Are On Display In America For The First Time Ever
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a major resource for the millions of people who have been captivated by Frank’s story. The home, where Frank, her family, the three-person van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazis in a secret annex between 1942 and 1944, has become a site of pilgrimage since…
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