PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Film & TV Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis. A new film tells 8 of their stories.
Director Julia Mintz interviewed some of the last surviving partisans for her documentary 'Four Winters'
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The Schmooze Jerry Seinfeld is now wearing your bubbe’s upholstery
Modeling for the fashion line Kith, Seinfeld wears some collegiate looks — and some weirdly garish ones
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Film & TV How Harry Styles and Chris Pine became the spitting image of a ‘Seinfeld’ episode
The moment at Venice has been likened to the Zapruder film and Keith Hernandez's 'magic loogie'
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Music He preserved Ukrainian Jewish culture — before, during and after the Shoah
Elena Yakovich’s ‘Song Searcher’ examines how Moyshe Beregovsky recorded Yiddish folksongs and oral traditions
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Film & TV ‘The Patient’ is one of the most Jewish shows on television — should it have been more so?
In the FX limited series, Steve Carell says kaddish as a Jewish therapist held hostage
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Music A lost Yiddish opera complete, and in performance, at last
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'
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Culture Jared Kushner’s memoir is all about forgiveness — but he’s not asking for ours
‘Breaking History’ is a hefty airbrush of the Trump administration
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Culture Is ‘Bambi’ about Jewish persecution, Zionism or something else?
The life of Felix Salten, author of “Bambi: A Life in the Woods” was marked by antisemitism
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