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This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

  • Rachel Rubinstein looks to the future of Yiddish literature in translation.

  • Jay Michaelson questions the intuitive power of religion.

  • Jenna Weissman Joselit wonders what Cyrus Adler would have thought of contemporary museum going.

  • Gordon Haber gets depressed by Yael Hedaya’s “Eden.”

  • Alexander Gelfand listens to the evolution of Jewish music at the Folksbiene.

  • Philologos goes fishing.

  • 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).

  • The Forward visits music critic and eminent Dylanologist Greil Marcus.

  • On the latest Nigun Project, Jeremiah Lockwood collaborates with drummer Amir Ziv and trumpeter Jordan McLean on “The Magid of Koznitz’s Nigun.”

  • 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.”

  • And on the Forverts video channel, Paul Glasser reads the third part of Sholom Aleichem’s story “Baranovich Station”:

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