This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

Image by Joel Schalit

By Ezra Glinter August 27, 2010

• Benjamin Ivry retrospects to the work of surrealist painter Felix Nussbaum.

• Philologos unpacks the reference to Cordoba in “Cordoba House.”

• Joel Schalit sends a letter from Berlin about living in “Eurabia.”

• Jerome A. Chanes reads Robert Alter’s reading of the King James Bible.

• Forward Editor Jane Eisner reviews Sharon Pomerantz’s debut novel “Rich Boy,” a book about Philadelphia Jews from the wrong side of the tracks.

• Joshua Furst goes to see Randy “The Ethicist” Cohen’s play, “The Punishing Blow” (which he previously wrote about for The Arty Semite, here).

• On The Sisterhood, Sarah Seltzer puts together a ‘Women’s Equality Day’ reading list and weighs in on the fracas over Jonathan Franzen’s new novel and The New York Times’ reviewing practices.

• If you missed our “3 Alicias 3” event on August 24, you can watch the video here.

• And on the Forverts Video Channel, Alex Dafner reports from Australia’s “Yiddish Melbourne” radio show:

Yiddish Melbourne – SBS Yiddish Radio Program from Forverts on Vimeo.