This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

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Rachel Rubinstein looks to the future of Yiddish literature in translation.
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Jay Michaelson questions the intuitive power of religion.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit wonders what Cyrus Adler would have thought of contemporary museum going.
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Gordon Haber gets depressed by Yael Hedaya’s “Eden.”
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Alexander Gelfand listens to the evolution of Jewish music at the Folksbiene.
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Philologos goes fishing.
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Yoel Matveev interviews Gabriel Kuhn, translator of the newly published “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader” by German-Jewish anarchist Gustav Landauer (reviewed on The Arty Semite here and in the Forverts).
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The Forward visits music critic and eminent Dylanologist Greil Marcus.
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On the latest Nigun Project, Jeremiah Lockwood collaborates with drummer Amir Ziv and trumpeter Jordan McLean on “The Magid of Koznitz’s Nigun.”
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In this week’s Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Courtney Martin, an editor at Feministing.com, senior correspondent for the American Prospect Online, and author of “Do it Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.”
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And on the Forverts video channel, Paul Glasser reads the third part of Sholom Aleichem’s story “Baranovich Station”: