This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Image by Tim Cragg and WGBH
By Ezra Glinter October 22, 2010
-
Leah Koenig looks into the proliferation of kosher certification in America.
-
Curt Schleier and Gordon Haber ponder “God in America,” a six-hour PBS documentary that debunks the myth that the Founding Fathers were evangelicals.
-
Steven G. Kellman goes poking around in Nicole Krauss’s “Great House.”
-
Philologos wonders if swearing loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state” really means anything, anyway.
-
Benjamin Ivry profiles Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, whose works are receiving greater and greater acclaim.
-
Zohar Tirosh-Polk reviews “The Human Scale,” a new play by The New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright (previously interviewed on The Arty Semite here) about his experience reporting from Gaza.
-
And this week on the Forverts video channel Boris Sandler talks to Yiddish actor Rafael Goldwaser about his play “The Metamorphosis of a Melody” (Previously reviewed on The Arty Semite here) which returns to New York on November 11:
