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 Hitler Painting To Be Exhibited In Italian ‘Museum Of Madness’
Visitors to the Museo di Salo, in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, might face something of a shock in the next several months. In an exhibit titled “Museum of Madness,” opening on March 11, a painting by Adolf Hitler will occupy the gallery, alongside works by well-regarded artists like Francisco de Goya and Francis…
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Culture Trevor Noah In New York, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
If you won’t be spending this weekend, say, watching the Chicago River being dyed green, or engaging in some, uh, more traditional Irish culture, we’ve got you covered. Start the weekend right, in New York, by hearing “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah speak at the New York Public Library about his recent book, “Born a…
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Culture LISTEN: In New Single, Bob Dylan Revisits An Old Love
Enigmatic, husky-voiced, Nobel Prize-winning Bob Dylan is at it again, with a new album, “Triplicate,” arriving at the end of this month. In a newly-released single off that album, Dylan’s take on Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” the singer takes a hazy look back at a lost love. “Sometimes I wonder,” Dylan sings, “why I spend my…
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Culture What Is New York’s Most Distinctive Surname? Hint: It Starts With A ‘C’
Analyzing data from the 2000 U.S. Census, mental_floss’s Simon Davis discovered that Cohen is New York’s most distinctive surname. If that news has prompted you to wonder at the apparent preeminence of Jews on the East Coast, not so fast: An unscientific analysis of U.S. Census data from 2010 shows we’re likely far less popular…
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Culture Is The Guggenheim’s New Exhibit Just A Tad Too Self-Regarding?
The reason you and I are able to read almost half of Shakespeare’s plays is that two actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, were among the first to perform them. The duo saved portions of Shakespeare’s scripts — in his era, rather than receiving the full text of a play, actors were given only their…
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Culture The Most Distinctive Surname In New York Is, Unsurprisingly, Jewish
Where do American Jews live, you wonder? Set your preconceptions aside: It turns out, based on a somewhat arbitrary analysis of last names, that a lot of them live in New York and New Jersey. (That, in case you missed it, was a joke.) This information comes from mental_floss’s Simon Davis, who looked, this past…
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Culture Elena Ferrante Novels To Be Adapted For TV — By Director Of Film About Israeli Occupation
In the last few years, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, which concluded with 2014’s “The Story of the Lost Child,” have taken the literary world by storm. Now, Italian director Saverio Costanzo will spearhead their adaptation into a 32-episode television series. While the novels’ imminent adaptation for television was first announced in February, Costanzo’s involvement is…
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Culture Eli Wallach And Anne Jackson Archives Find University Of Texas Home
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, a research library dedicated to maintaining the word of artists and writers, will provide a permanent home for the papers of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. The married couple, method actors who met when both were cast in a 1946 Broadway production of Tennessee…
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