This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

By Ezra Glinter November 19, 2010

Jordana Horn checks out the Other Israel Film Festival.
Benjamin Ivry appreciates Russian Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
Sherwin Kaufman remembers arriving at Ellis Island almost 90 years ago.

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Yelena Akhtiorskaya takes a poetry lesson from Andrei Codrescu.
Jacob Silverman reviews “Dolly City” by Orly Castel-Bloom.

Eryn Loeb compares and contrasts two tongue-in-cheek books about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Philologos examines the integration of Arabic words in contemporary Hebrew.

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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