This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Detail from ?Girl With Vegetables? by Jerzy Ascher, 1925.
By Ezra Glinter November 12, 2010
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Talia Bloch sings the praises of poet and Bollingen Prize-winner Allen Grossman.
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Philologos wonders when ‘Palestine’ became such a controversial word.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit pores over Chief Rabbi of Cincinnati Eliezer Silver’s ledger book.
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Benjamin Ivry appreciates the Jewish artists at the Villa la Fleur museum outside of Warsaw.
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Joshua Furst questions the theatrical pieties of Lisa Kron’s new play, “In the Wake.”
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Jordana Horn keeps score at “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.”
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Back in 1903, Forverts editor Ab Cahan encouraged Jewish parents to let their children play ball, “as long as he doesn’t become an athlete as a result.”
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On November 8, Social Realist painter Jack Levine passed away at the age of 95. In this 1997 profile, then-Forward arts and culture editor (and current ARTnews executive editor) Robin Cembalest visited Levine in his studio.
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In the latest Nigun project, Jeremiah Lockwood joins forces with Yula Be’eri on “Through the Castle at Night.”
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In this week’s Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Adam Levine, author of the newly published tome “The Instructions.”
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And on the Forverts video channel, China correspondent Ross Perlin checks in from “the roof of the world.”
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