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Elena Ferrante Novels To Be Adapted For TV — By Director Of Film About Israeli Occupation
In the last few years, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, which concluded with 2014’s “The Story of the Lost Child,” have taken the literary world by storm. Now, Italian director Saverio Costanzo will spearhead their adaptation into a 32-episode television series. While the novels’ imminent adaptation for television was first announced in February, Costanzo’s involvement is…
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Why William F. Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’ Provides The Antidote To Today’s Political Debate
We are currently dealing with two pernicious and complementary problems in our country: politicians ranging from imbecilic to evil (often both) and a degraded, debased, public discourse. Both problems feed on one another, and it is difficult to say which came first (i.e. Trump speaks and thinks like an imbecile, thus every time we want…
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Eli Wallach And Anne Jackson Archives Find University Of Texas Home
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, a research library dedicated to maintaining the word of artists and writers, will provide a permanent home for the papers of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. The married couple, method actors who met when both were cast in a 1946 Broadway production of Tennessee…
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At The National Jewish Book Awards, Nostalgia — And An Acrobatic Tie — Reigned Supreme
As literature elevates, it is occasionally important to elevate literature, which is, perhaps, why the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards took place in a Manhattan penthouse with a view so stunning as to distract a journalist from her notes. And as literature delights with piquant details, it was appropriate that Michael Chabon, attending to receive…
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The Incredible Holocaust Photographs Of Henryk Ross Show Daily Life In The Lodz Ghetto
From 1940 to 1944, photographer Henryk Ross documented life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Officially, Ross worked for the ghetto’s Jewish Administration’s Statistics department, photographing the Jewish ghetto’s inhabitants for identification cards and for propaganda images to be used by the Nazis. When Ross was not working in his bureaucratic capacity however, he risked…
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What Does Billy Crystal Love About Being Jewish?
(JUF News via JTA) The inimitable Billy Crystal is back on the road. The six-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, director and writer — most recently of a book of essays, “Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys” — is currently touring the U.S. with his…
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At Abigail Pogrebin’s Book Launch, Hope For A Jewish Future
In abundance at the March 6 launch of Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew,” among other things, were wine, a distinctly Jewish sense of goodwill, motherly advice, and petite, tastefully arranged spoonfuls of raw tuna, the last of which the event’s caterers could surely have described in more appetizing terms. More…
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Here’s One Way To Fight The Gender Gap In Literature
Just in time for International Women’s Day, The University of Warwick in the United Kingdom announced that it is establishing an annual £1000 prize for women in translation — prompting elation from writers, translators and translation activists who are working hard to close the gender gap in international literature. The Warwick Prize for Women in…
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Fanny Mendelssohn’s Lost Sonata Finally Gets Its Premiere
Imagine learning all of Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues by heart and being told, “that’s cute.” You’d smash your instrument, and the interlocutor in rage. Well, that’s precisely what happened to Fanny Mendelssohn (it happened to countless women then, and continues to happen now). Fanny, though a musical prodigy and a prolific composer, was overshadowed…
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The Renaissance Composer Who Put Hebrew Prayers To Music Is Having A Resurgence
“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, and the soft-spoken founder of the Israeli male vocal quintet Profeti della Quinta – which is currently based in Basel, Switzerland…
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Books How Timothy Snyder’s Facebook Post Became A Guide To Living Under Tyranny
ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Tim Duggan Books. 128 pp. $7.19 Out of boredom, a shepherd boy, calls to the adults in his village to tell them that a wolf is chasing his flock of sheep. When the villagers arrive to help the boy, they find no wolf, because…
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