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Germany: A 3G Love Story
In America we know the poignant narratives of the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, but we are less familiar with the generation of Germans whose forebears were Nazi sympathizers or turned their eyes away from the atrocities of the camps and gas chambers. Photographer Adam Golfer aims to change this. First on a fellowship…
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Connecting Disparate Worlds
Arye Carmon, the president of the Israel Democracy Institute, think tank, has been taking photographs for more than 40 years. Only recently, though, has he received recognition for his artwork. Arye Carmon recently visited the Forward’s studio to discuss the recent exhibition of his work at the Max Lang gallery in New York City.
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What Religious Arguments Are Really About
‘All of a sudden, there was hope in my heart I’d see my father again.” Thus wrote one of America’s most influential religious leaders of the moment when he became religious. It was at his father’s funeral, and the presiding minister had just said that death is not the end, that there is an afterlife….
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A Rich Eastern European Dish
The Jews in Poland and Russia: Volume I, 1350-1881 By Antony Polonsky The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 568 pages, $59.50 The academic world has become, as of late, almost grotesquely distended by piles of books and articles on the narrowest and most obscure of subjects, written in increasingly opaque scholarly jargon. A mere glance…
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21st Century Mann
The Escape By Adam Thirlwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pages, $25 ‘No one likes a deserter, an escapee, because it proves the fact that there is always a choice. So often, it is easier to believe that life is a trap.” So asserts the wily and knowing narrator of Adam Thirlwell’s at once brilliant…
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A Life of Breath
At the start of Ruedi Gerber’s documentary film, “Breath Made Visible,” a dancer moves onstage with the supple grace of a cat. She takes off an outer garment to reveal legs that, under other circumstances, would draw the eyes and wolf-whistles of construction workers. Fluidly, she takes off her gloves and then her mask. And…
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The Method Man
It helps if Catherine Deneuve likes you. When I spoke to him in his studio, Leonard Lopate — celebrating 25 years at WNYC this year — noted how helpful it was for his journey from art student to radio host, to win the approval of French film stars: Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Jeanne Moreau, and others….
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A Thrill From Beyond the Grave
Love and its crushing disappointments are at the center of Hanoch Levin’s newly discovered play, “Thrill My Heart,” “Hartiti et Leebee” in Hebrew, running now at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv. The play, written by Israel’s most renowned playwright, was discovered shortly after Levin’s death in 1999 and caused a stir of excitement and…
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Of Fags, Flags, Faggots and Feygeles
David Herszenson of Manhattan writes: “I know that feygele literally means ‘little bird’ in Yiddish and came to mean ‘gay’ among Yiddish speakers as well. In a rudimentary Internet search, I discovered that the word ‘fag’ began to mean ‘gay’ in American slang in the early 1900s, at the peak of the Eastern European Jewish…
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April 30, 2010
100 Years Ago in the forward Louis Cantor, a Philadelphia-based pimp, was sentenced to six years in prison for raping and forcing a woman, Dora Rubin, into a life of prostitution. The trial, which riveted Jewish Philadelphia, contained moments of real drama, such as when Rubin took the stand to testify against Cantor. The entire…
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The Nigun Project: At the Table
Listen to Jeremiah Lockwood and Brian Chase perform the second installment of the Nigun Project, “At the Table”: Part of my motivation for starting the Nigun Project — in which I reinterpret nigunim, with a range of musical collaborators — was to have a good reason to spend sizable chunks of time staring at old…
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