Out and About: Midrash and the Megillah; Einstein’s Archives Unleashed

By Ezra Glinter March 17, 2011

How Yiddish poet Itzik Manger brought midrash to the Megillah.
Bob Dylan, Brandeis University, 1963: Coming soon to a record store near you.
In other Dylanalia, Bob’s upcoming Asian tour now includes stops in both China and Vietnam.

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David Kaufmann on new poetry by Adrienne Rich.
The Hebrew University is putting Albert Einstein’s archives on the Internet.

Have bar mitvah YouTube videos gone too far?
How to write a Purim Shpil.
“Imagining Madoff” will open Theater J’s 2011/2012 season.
Lou Reed’s manager is being investigated by police for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hitmen after a “headhunter for the stars.”
Influential art historian Leo Steinberg has died.

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

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