This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Image by Courtesy Robert Sherman
By Ezra Glinter October 15, 2010
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Michael Goldfarb celebrates the Man Booker Prize win by English Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans on giving an honorary Oscar to Jean-Luc Godard. But will they be honoring an anti-Semite? Benjamin Ivry investigates.
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Fifty years after his initial rise to fame, novelty songwriter Allan Sherman is as popular as ever. Mark Cohen explains why.
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Ilan Stavans goes to see “Nora’s Will,” a Mexican film that won seven Ariel awards.
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Gordon Haber critiques a documentary about March of the Living.
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Shoshana Olidort reviews “Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka” by Rodger Kamenetz.
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Did the Nazis really make lampshades out of human skin? Jon Kalish reports.
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If you move to Israel, do you “go on Aliyah” or “make Aliyah”? Philologos adjudicates.
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Gavriel Rosenfeld explores the United States’ oldest Holocaust Museum’s new home.
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Dara Horn appraises Cynthia Ozick’s ambition.
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Rochelle G. Saidel and Sonja M. Hedgepeth appreciate groundbreaking feminist artist Judy Chicago.
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And in the latest Nigun Project, Jeremiah Lockwood joins forces with Basya Schechter of Pharaoh’s Daughter to play a melody from the Lubavitch Sefer HaNigunim.
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