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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Marvel’s Mavens
Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero By Danny Fingeroth Continuum, 183 pages, $24.95. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America By David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pages, $26. The history of comics has been big recently, and there’ve been a number of…
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The Eye, And I, of the Ethnographer
Ashantee By Peter Altenberg Translated by Katharina von Hammerstein Ariadne Press, 128 pages, $15. In 1896, a group of people from the Ashanti tribe was displayed in an ethnographic exhibit in Vienna’s Prater, huts erected amid its Tiergarten, or zoo. There, to the delight of 5,000 to 6,000 visitors a day, they sang, danced the…
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Just Say ‘Nu?’: Latrine Detail
‘Inter faeces et urinam nascimur,” wrote Saint Augustine, who just became the first Church Father ever quoted in a guide to Yiddish conversation. “We are born between feces and urine,” he says, so let’s not get carried away with ourselves; the birth canal through which all of us enter this world is located between the…
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The Virtues of the Unaffiliated
It’s all about the unaffiliated. Ask anyone who runs a Jewish not-for-profit, and she’ll tell you: Success is measured in terms of how many “unaffiliated” Jews you get to “affiliate” — whether with Jewishness, Judaism or, at the very least, the latest program, trend or synagogue-outreach initiative. Organizations that don’t focus on the unaffiliated have…
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Picturing the ‘Problem From Hell’
When you look at a photograph that depicts an act of violence — or, in the case of Lane H. Montgomery’s new photography book, “Never Again, Again, Again” (Ruder Finn), an act of genocide — you might assume that the photographer took a substantial amount of time to frame, say, a heap of murdered Tutsis…
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Isaac Meyers, a Promising Young Voice, Stilled at 29
The Forward mourns the passing of Isaac Meyers, our friend and contributor, who was hit by a truck and killed on March 18 in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 29. He was studying for a PhD in Classics at Harvard, where his work focused on the translation of sacred Hebrew texts into Greek and…
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March 28, 2008
** 100 Years Ago in the forward** For the first time in its history, the Forward has printed an English editorial on its front page. It has to do with the story of Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia who was shot to death by Chicago Chief of Police George M. Shippy. According…
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Books Did Tolkien Take a Page From Purim?
Jewschool’s Ben Dreyfus notes a striking similarity between J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece “The Lord of the Rings” and the Purim story: Haftarat Zachor (which is read twice this year here in Jerusalem) + Megillat Esther = The Lord of the Rings. One of them is totally plagiarized. After winning the war with Sauron, Isildur is…
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Yid Vid: ‘Jewno’
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Unterzakhn, Part 3
Read this week’s installment of Leela Corman’s new graphic novel, “Unterzakhn,” which is being serialized in the Forward. (Or, to start at the very beginning, click here). CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW
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Haredi Life, Too Purely Rendered
The Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews, don’t go to the movies. This is partly on account of the silver screen’s abundant displays of what is known among these communities as pritsus — that is, sex and general profanity — but it is also because any such frivolous entertainment is considered “bittul-Torah,” a prohibited waste of precious…
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