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How Columbus Brought America Its First Jew
For all their clout in the American imagination, the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria don’t appear to factor much into the American Jewish tapestry. But Christopher Columbus, a devout Italian Catholic sailing at the behest of the king and queen of Spain, was certain that, when he arrived in Asia, he’d encounter descendants of the…
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October 11: Boulder, Colorado: Rukhl Schaechter Discusses Yiddish In The Digital Era
Times have changed, and so has the Forward. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish newspaper for Jewish immigrants, it has adapted over the years to appeal to its changing demographic. Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forward (still lovingly called Forverts), will visit the University of Colorado Boulder on October 11 to discuss how the…
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An Exile In Marseilles But Out Of Time
We learn very little about Georg, the hero of Christian Petzold’s new film, “Transit.” In exile from Germany, he arrives in Marseilles with few possessions of his own, very little time, and the documents of a writer whose death in Paris was covered up. It is out of desperation, we can ascertain, that he begins…
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Art 1973 Yom Kippur War Captured In Rediscovered Photographs
A few faces in Nathan Fendrich’s photos are familiar: then-general Ariel Sharon beams while surrounded by soldiers; Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor played Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” But most of the subjects remain a mystery 45 years after he photographed them in the heat of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Fendrich, 84, donated…
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Philip Roth’s Favorite Elegy — And His Lifelong Love Of Chamber Music
Philip Roth’s Intimate Farewell through Chamber Music On September 25, friends of the late novelist Philip Roth paid him tribute at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum. Roth had personally planned the ceremony over the past several years. Speakers included the biographer Judith Thurman, novelist Edna O’Brien, and political economist Bernard Avishai, author…
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October 9: New York University: Peter Beinart, Jane Eisner, Chloe Valdary And Avi Shilon Discuss Identity and Nationalism
Come to the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU for a panel discussion with the Forward on identity and nationalism. Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner will moderate a panel that will include Peter Beinart, Chloe Valdary and Avi Shilon. We will also be celebrating the launch of the October issue of the Forward magazine and…
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8 Jewish Members Of Parliament Announce Opposition To Holocaust Memorial
A 50-million-pound Holocaust memorial planned for the Victoria Garden Towers, a public park outside the United Kingdom’s Parliament, has drawn new criticism from an unexpected group: Jewish Members of Parliament. The memorial was devised by the Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye and English-Israeli sculptor Ron Arad, who won a contest with their design last October….
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Film & TV Nan Goldin Made Fun Of Herself On ‘The Deuce’
In “What Big Ideas,” Season 2, Episode 4 of HBO’s “The Deuce,” the Hi-Hat Bar got a new patron: Photographer Nan Goldin. Proving once more that it’s not just TV, but HBO, a highbrow platform for educated art-loving types, series co-creator David Simon snuck the activist-artist Goldin into a scene in the seedy Time Square…
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Forget Politics: America Is Undergoing A Moral Revolution
On any given day, one doesn’t have to look very far — no farther than your newspaper or news broadcast — to see a world spinning wildly out of control, to see every single decent human value trashed and then trashed again, to see egregious behavior treated as if it were normal, to see the…
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Film & TV ‘Stavisky’ Remains A Slick Study Of Jewish Identity
American audiences may not be familiar with the name “Serge Alexandre Stavisky” or his many aliases, but the French recognize the Russian-born Jewish con man’s decline as helping ease their country’s slide into Fascism. A new restoration of director Alain Resnais’ 1974 film “Stavisky” opens Wednesday at New York’s Film Forum and plays through October…
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Salman Rushdie: How Philip Roth Became A Political Prophet
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered by Salman Rushdie on September 27, 2018 as the Newark Public Library’s Third Annual Philip Roth Lecture. The Forward spoke to Rushdie about Roth’s legacy and the challenge of serving as his eulogist; read that interview here. The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in…
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