This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

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Benjamin Ivry remembers Yuli Margolin, a survivor of the gulag whose memoirs have finally been published, 40 years after his death.
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Philologos strips down.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit pores over the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.
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Catie Lazarus takes a look at Jewish documentary filmmakers.
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Mark Cohen explains how Sephardic Jewry survived the expulsion from Spain.
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Raphael Mostel looks back at the best classical productions of 2010.
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And Eric Schulmiller reveals the Jewish inventors of Kodachrome.