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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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Theater Yiddish Fiddler Will Move Off-Broadway In February
It’s next year in Midtown for the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbeine’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Playbill reports that the all-Yiddish production of the musical, directed by the legendary performer Joel Grey and translated into Yiddish by Shraga Friedman, will transfer from lower Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to Off-Broadway’s Stage 42 where it…
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Here’s Stan Lee’s Final Published Work (Spoiler: He Discusses the Holocaust)
Editor’s Note: Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee, who passed away this week, took a strong interest in the Holocaust in recent years. His final published essay appeared as the introduction to the recent book “We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust,” by Neal Adams, Rafael Medoff, and Craig Yoe (IDW/Yoe Books, 2018). “We…
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December 9: Palo Alto, California: Zionism 3.0 Conference
Forward publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen and editor-in-chief Jane Eisner are heading to the West Coast for the Zionism 3.0 Conference. Click here for a livestream of the event. They will be joined at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, California, by leading politicians, artists, analysts and influencers from around the world to engage in…
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December 5: Manhattan: The Forward Honors #FearlessWomen
The Forward is proud to honor several accomplished journalists in its “#FearlessWomen in Journalism Gala,” including its very own editor-in-chief Jane Eisner. Jane is celebrating 10 years in her post, as first woman to lead the Forward. Her fellow honorees include Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of The New York…
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Among The Treasures Of The Bund, Lessons For Today
The New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which has held the fragile archives of the Bund since 1992, has announced a new initiative to make them more accessible to scholars and family researchers by digitizing and posting them online. Irene Pletka, the vice chairman of YIVO’s board, is kick-starting this effort with a reported…
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Hitler’s Jewish ‘Sweetheart’ Was A 7-Year Old Girl
Adolf Hitler spent his first birthday as Chancellor of Germany embracing and laughing with a seven-year-old Jewish girl. He called her “sweetheart,” and she called him “Uncle Hitler.” On April 20, 1933 at the Berghof, Hitler’s residence in the Bavarian Alps, the Nazi leader posed for photos with Rosie Bernile Nienau, whose grandmother was Jewish…
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Stan Lee And The Death Of A Jewish-American Idealism
A friend of mine once said there are three unarguably American creations: Baseball, Jazz, and Comic Books. Jews historically had a hand in all of them, but thanks to geniuses like Stan Lee, the latter is what we can claim as truly ours. Stan Lee’s passing marks the end of an era not only for…
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Comic Book Visionary Stan Lee Is Dead At 95
In the beginning, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its constellation of movie stars and superheroes, there was Stan Lee. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Lee, the former editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics passed away November 12 at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. He is survived by his daughter J.C., younger brother Larry Lieber…
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In Russia, A Jewish Director’s Trial Marks A New Threat To Freedom
At the Cannes International Film Festival in May, Kirill Serebrennikov was everywhere. His nametag on a table at a press conference. His film “Leto” mentioned as a top contender for the Palme d’Or. His eyes looking out from square-frame glasses, printed on a paper bag the actress Franziska Petri wore over her head. On a…
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Einstein Fled Germany Amid Anti-Semitic Threats In 1922. Here’s What He Wrote About Exile.
In 1922, more than a decade before the Nazis rise to power in Germany, Albert Einstein went into hiding. Now, a letter written after his hasty escape from Berlin has been unearthed. The letter to Einstein’s sister Maja, discovered by an anonymous collector, is dated August 12, 1922. It’s unclear where Einstein was when he…
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Film & TV 5 Questions For Documentary Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “My Architect” about his relationship with his architect father, Louis Kahn, thinks we’re confusing value with asking price. Over the last few years, Kahn infiltrated auction houses, the private galleries of well-heeled collectors and the grubby or extravagant studios of contemporary artists to get a panoramic view of…
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