This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter January 9, 2011
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Jerome A. Chanes goes to see The Living Theatre’s production of “Korach.”
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Curt Schleier tells the story of three Broadway producers.
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Jay Michaelson questions whether mysticism is real.
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Philologos is possessed.
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Laurence Zuckerman looks back at the life of Judah L. Magnes, one of 20th-century Jewry’s most important — and most overlooked — leaders.
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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”).
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In this week’s Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Elisa Albert about a new collection of essays, “Freud’s Blind Spot.”
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On The Sisterhood, Leah Berkenwald says a Mi Sheberach for the recently hospitalized Debbie Friedman.
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And on the Forverts video channel, Dr. Max Kohn talks to classical pianist (and friend of the Forverts) Evgeny Kissin:
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