PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture Hitler’s Jewish ‘Sweetheart’ Was A 7-Year Old Girl
Adolf Hitler spent his first birthday as Chancellor of Germany embracing and laughing with a seven-year-old Jewish girl. He called her “sweetheart,” and she called him “Uncle Hitler.” On April 20, 1933 at the Berghof, Hitler’s residence in the Bavarian Alps, the Nazi leader posed for photos with Rosie Bernile Nienau, whose grandmother was Jewish…
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Culture Comic Book Visionary Stan Lee Is Dead At 95
In the beginning, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its constellation of movie stars and superheroes, there was Stan Lee. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Lee, the former editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics passed away November 12 at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. He is survived by his daughter J.C., younger brother Larry Lieber…
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Culture Einstein Fled Germany Amid Anti-Semitic Threats In 1922. Here’s What He Wrote About Exile.
In 1922, more than a decade before the Nazis rise to power in Germany, Albert Einstein went into hiding. Now, a letter written after his hasty escape from Berlin has been unearthed. The letter to Einstein’s sister Maja, discovered by an anonymous collector, is dated August 12, 1922. It’s unclear where Einstein was when he…
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Film & TV 5 Questions For Documentary Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “My Architect” about his relationship with his architect father, Louis Kahn, thinks we’re confusing value with asking price. Over the last few years, Kahn infiltrated auction houses, the private galleries of well-heeled collectors and the grubby or extravagant studios of contemporary artists to get a panoramic view of…
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Culture What Really Happened With Jason Blum’s Israel Film Festival Anti-Trump Speech?
On the night of November 6, as the polls for the midterm elections were closing on the west coast, America’s divisiveness was on raucous display at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center in Beverly Hills. Jason Blum, producer of “Get Out” and head of Blumhouse Productions, was accepting the Israel Film Festival’s Achievement in Film and…
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Film & TV Telling Blaze Bernstein’s Story On ‘48 Hours’ — Just Days After Pittsburgh
Almost one year has passed since 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore Blaze Bernstein was killed allegedly for being gay and Jewish. On Saturday November 10, a special devoted to Bernstein’s story will air on CBS’ “48 Hours” which will include the first primetime TV interview with his parents. The show first approached Jeanne Pepper Bernstein…
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Culture Pittsburgh’s Other First Jewish Mayor Wasn’t Named Sophie
Self-described “Old Jewish grandmother” Sophie Masloff was the first and only female mayor of Pittsburgh but was she, as has been widely-reported, the city’s first Jewish mayor? A week after the Forward ran a piece remembering Masloff, and repeating the claim that she was a Jewish as well as female first for the city, we…
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Culture What To Read About Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh
The history of anti-Semitism is sprawling and ugly. But as Americans look to understand this unique prejudice in the aftermath of the massacre in Pittsburgh, a number of books and essays can serve as useful primers on the subject. The New York Times recently suggested three such titles: “(((SEMITISM))): Being Jewish in America in the…
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