Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture. Here, you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music, film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of everything and everyone from The Rolling Stones to…
Culture
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Books Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Sports How Ron Blomberg made me care about baseball again (if only for one night)
At Yankee Stadium, MLB's first designated hitter brought back a desperately needed enthusiasm
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The real Jewish history behind Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ and the WWII rescue mission that inspired it
The story of Varian Fry, who helped lead an operation that saved thousands of Jewish artists and other refugees, gets the Netflix treatment
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How on-the-rise Jewish indie rocker Blondshell takes inspiration from Larry David and Sarah Silverman
An album full of earworm melodies — that makes references to bad sex, emotional trauma and her Jewishness — has Sabrina Teitelbaum headed for rock stardom
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Books I translated ‘Life and Fate.’ Now an imprisoned American journalist is reading it in a Russian jail
Vasily Grossman’s epic about life during the siege of Stalingrad is painfully resonant for journalists working in Russia today
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What have I, a 93-year-old lox slicer, done to deserve all this?
A story of friendship, 'Cabaret' and life after retirement
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Music Connor Roy’s Leonard Cohen moment was peak ‘Succession’
The Prince of Bummers and failed Princeling were a match made in depressive heaven
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Books How Ayn Rand, Emerson and Thoreau perverted the American Dream
In 'Bootstrapped,' Alissa Quart takes aim at our myths and our solipsism
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Film & TV Starring in a CBS thriller, a Jewish actor confronts antisemitism (on screen and off)
For Adam Goldberg, a memorable episode of 'The Equalizer' hits almost too close to home.
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The legacy of Isaac Babel, Russia’s Jewish Hemingway, is dissected in new Chicago play
'Describe the Night,' which features a non-Jewish actor playing Babel, blends three stories from different eras.
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m thinking of sponsoring a kiddush to celebrate Trump’s indictment. Is that wrong?
A reader seeks a — potentially controversial — outlet for their glee
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