PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Film & TV In a film from Israel, three characters in search of a love language
Expanded from an Oscar-nominated Israeli short, ‘Dead Language’ goes deeper into our failures to communicate
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Film & TV In unheard recordings, Andy Kaufman emerges — a kinder, gentler soul than you may expect, or hope to see
‘Andy Kaufman is Me’ cuts through some of the mystique of the controversial comic
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Books In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father’s life under Nazism
Daniel Kehlmann's ‘The Director’ confronts his family history through the life of G.W. Pabst
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Art Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum finds an artist whose Jewish identity was linked to a questioning crusade for justice
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Film & TV ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ reveals the real Paul Reubens
The actor behind the iconic manchild was fiercely private — but spoke up to clear his name
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Culture A gala for Jewish Queer Youth celebrates untold, queer Jewish stories
Rachel Sussman was the inaugural honoree for the nonprofit advocating for observant queer Jews
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Film & TV Is it time for ‘Asterix’ to retire the ‘Roman’ salute?
The Netflix series of ‘The Big Fight’ is delightful satire, but there’s a problem
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Culture Is ‘Andor’ about Jews, Palestinians — or both and/or neither?
The ‘Star Wars’ show is drawing from numerous histories, but which you see in it may depend on your own bias
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