Out and About: David Grossman in Frankfurt, Idan Raichel at the Opera
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David Grossman has won the German Book Trade Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer comes to Carbondale, Illinois.
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As the music consultant for The Israeli Opera, Idan Raichel has chosen Vieux Farka Touré to open the new season on November 26.
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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week. Watch him speak in 2007 at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center.
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Read an excerpt from “Eden,” the latest novel by Israeli (and “In Treatment”) writer Yael Hedaya.
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Julian Schnabel takes a few Polaroids.
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Care to live in an apartment building designed by Frank Gehry?
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Schmekel is “New York City’s only All-Jewish All-Transgender Polka-Punk band.”
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The movie version of Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is casting.
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Roman Polanski is back on the scene in Paris.
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Lee Friedlander photographs Philip Roth.
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George Price was a “Jewish half-breed” who worked on the Manhattan project, helped develop radiation therapy, and contributed heavily to evolutionary biology before “[abandoning] his career in a mission to shelter and comfort homeless alcoholics.”
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Yiddish is back (again).
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Robert Alter’s translations of “The Wisdom Books,” reviewed.
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British Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson, interviewed.
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And last but not least, “Persian Israeli Accordionist Stars in Heartwarming Craigslist TV Accordion Idol Story.”