This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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John Semley goes behind the scenes of “Barney’s Version.”
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I profile musician, filmmaker, photographer and folk revivalist John Cohen.
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Glenn C. Altschuler reviews a new book about Harry Gold, a “disciplined, smart, lonely, pathetic and oddly appealing” Soviet spy.
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Benjamin Ivry takes a fresh look at the polarizing French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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Philologos elucidates the possible Biblical allusions in the Stuxnet computer virus.
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Jerome A. Chanes examines two different approaches to the age-old association of Jews, money and capitalism.
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And on the Forverts video channel, Itzik Gottesman talks to Argentinean-born Yiddish actress Shifre Lerer on the occasion of her 95th birthday:
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