Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Culture Why 7,000 Pieces Of Vicious Anti-Semitic Propaganda Are Relevant Again
Arthur Langerman began collecting pieces of anti-Semitic propaganda dating from the late 19th century onward in 1961. He thought his collection, which now includes close to 7,000 images and documents, would serve as a chronicle of the baseless hatred perpetuated by its contents. He didn’t anticipate his mission would, in his lifetime, become one of…
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Culture These Upcoming Plays Will Make You Want To Celebrate #WorldTheaterDay
It’s World Theater Day, and what better way to celebrate than by looking forward to the most exciting Jewish theater of the spring and summer? Whether you’re looking for brand new musical thrills, enigmatic mysteries, or fresh takes on classics, the upcoming New York and London seasons have it all. 1) “Indecent” Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,”…
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The Schmooze ‘Grace And Frankie’ Returns, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
It’s officially spring, which might mean you’re hoping to spend your weekend outside, drinking in the warmer weather. (Or, you know, fretting about the reason it’s already so unnervingly warm.) If you’re still in winter hygge mode, though — anyone who knows a Yiddish synonym for “hygge,” please step forward — spend your weekend bingeing…
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Culture You Can Now Read Saul Bellow’s Personal Papers At The University Of Chicago
Scholars of Saul Bellow, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, can now peruse the most sizable collection of his personal papers that has yet been made available at the University of Chicago Library. Bellow, whose works include “Herzog,” “The Adventures of Augie March,” and “Humboldt’s Gift,” was a professor at the University for three decades….
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Culture Would Fran Lebowitz Give Trump A Book? ‘It Would Depend On Who’s Reading It To Him’
Author, public speaker, and sardonic truth-teller of our dreams, Fran Lebowitz, has never been anything less than a character. In 1978, The New York Times’s review of her first collection of essays, “Metropolitan Life,” called her “irresistibly cranky;” one gets the sense that, had she read the review, she might have had the credo embroidered…
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Culture Bob Dylan Reveals Love For Amy Winehouse, ‘I Love Lucy,’ And — Possibly — Kabbalah
Woe to the soul who dares to assume they can make sense of Bob Dylan. In a new Q & A with the Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter, published by Dylan’s website in advance of the release of his three-disc set of standards, “Triplicate,” Bill Flanagan attempted to get the great man to reveal some…
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Culture The New York Times Has A New Theater Critic — But What Does He Think Of Arthur Miller?
Today, The New York Times announced that its new co-chief theater critic would be Jesse Green, currently of New York Magazine. Green will join the Times on May 1. To get a sense of what Green will bring to the Times, where he will have equal footing with current chief critic Ben Brantley — the…
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Culture Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination, David Grossman’s Grief To Take Lincoln Center Stage
The 2017 Lincoln Center Festival will feature a theatrical adaptation of David Grossman’s 2008 novel “To The End of the Land” and filmmaker Amos Gitai’s play “Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination,” Lincoln Center announced on Wednesday. The Festival, which will enter its 22nd season in July, is Lincoln Center’s annual showcase of international performance…
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