The Schmooze

This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

By Ezra Glinter January 9, 2011

Jerome A. Chanes goes to see The Living Theatre’s production of “Korach.”
Curt Schleier tells the story of three Broadway producers.
Jay Michaelson questions whether mysticism is real.

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Philologos is possessed.
Laurence Zuckerman looks back at the life of Judah L. Magnes, one of 20th-century Jewry’s most important — and most overlooked — leaders.

Glenn C. Altschuler reviews a festschrift in honor of American Jewish Archives director Gary Zola (and gives us an opportunity to use the word “festschrift”).
In this week’s Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Elisa Albert about a new collection of essays, “Freud’s Blind Spot.”
On The Sisterhood, Leah Berkenwald says a Mi Sheberach for the recently hospitalized Debbie Friedman.
And on the Forverts video channel, Dr. Max Kohn talks to classical pianist (and friend of the Forverts) Evgeny Kissin:

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

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