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After Sexual Harassment Investigation, Jewish Museum Severs Ties With Prominent Curator
The Jewish Museum has fired Jens Hoffmann, a highly regarded curator with a worldwide reputation, after conducting an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment made by people on the Museum’s staff. Hoffmann had been suspended earlier this month while the investigation was underway. As of press time, Robert Pruzan, chairman of the Museum’s board, had…
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Swedish Music Videos Teach Children Yiddish
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thanks to Yiddish’s status as an official minority language in Sweden, the Scandinavian nation finances many initiatives to encourage its use. Besides the yearly international Yiddish seminar, a program sponsored by the Yiddish authority in which lecturers and performers from around the world speak to Sweden’s Jewish…
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Uriel Weinreich’s 50th Yahrzeit Honored With Special Issue Of Linguistics Journal
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Although he is better known in the Yiddish cultural world for his landmark textbook “College Yiddish” and his “Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary”, Uriel Weinreich was also a pioneer in the field of sociolinguistics. Even today, 50 years after his tragic death from cancer at the age of 40,…
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Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Landmark Manhattan Art House Theater, Will Close
One of New York City’s most revered art house movie theaters, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, has announced that it will close in January 2018. The theater, founded, co-owned and operated by Dan and Toby Talbot, has been open since 1981. As The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Kilday reported, Ewnetu Admassu, the theater’s general manager, said the cinema…
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Film & TV ‘The Shape Of Water’ Is A Biblical Meditation On Transcendent Love
There’s an old joke: Two fish are swimming around in a fishbowl when one asks, “How’s the water?” “What the hell is water?” the other fish responds. In “The Shape Of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s newest tour de force film, the lonely, mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is miserably acclimated to her everyday, mundane routine —…
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Music Look No Further: Your Ultimate Jewish Christmas Spotify Playlist Is Here!
Maybe you find yourself quietly humming along to Christmas songs, not wanting to attract attention to yourself out of a sense of embarrassment or guilt. Maybe you find yourself at this time of year overwhelmed or oppressed by the onslaught of overplayed Christmas ditties pretending to be “holiday songs.” Maybe you secretly love Christmas songs…
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Are Millennials Tomorrow’s Revolutionaries — Or Its Fascists?
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials By Malcolm Harris Little Brown and Company, 272 pages $16.50 Are millennials more worthy of pity or contempt? Based on popular discourse, you might come to see this as the central controversy about that benighted generation. Their consumption habits and psychological hang-ups have been examined…
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Film & TV Safdie Brothers Sign On For Remake Of Buddy Cop Film ‘48 Hrs’
The announcements of most Hollywood remakes prompts groans and eye rolls. Yesterday, however, heralded news interesting enough to make one say, “OK. Let’s see where this goes.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the directors of “Good Time,” brothers Ben and Josh Safdie, are set to remake Walter Hill’s 1982 buddy cop film “48…
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Movie News: Net Neutrality, Disney Buys Fox, And Nazism In ‘Star Wars’
This week has seen two potentially paradigmatic changes in the media landscape. The Walt Disney Company is set to purchase 21st Century Fox, continuing a spree in which it purchased both Marvel and Lucasfilms. The merger sets Disney up to join the ranks of a small number of companies, including Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Facebook,…
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2018 New York Jewish Film Festival Lineup: “The Dybbuk,” Amos Gitai
The lineup for the 27th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival will highlight a diversity of voices and films, hailing from the United States, Israel, and many other countries, and including new features, documentaries, and shorts, as well as restored classics. A collaboration between the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of the Lincoln Center,…
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Film & TV How A Homely Jewish Tailor’s Daughter Became Hollywood’s First Seductress
A century ago the world was in the throes of the Great War, women didn’t yet have the vote and the movie industry was in its infancy. Two Jewish refugees from the wine-growing Tokaji region of Hungary — Adoph Zukor and William Fox (born Fuchs) — were beginning to make their mark on the fledgling…
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