Out and About: Darren Aronofsky’s New Pilot; Oskar Schindler’s Art Museum
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter June 20, 2011
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On Killing the Buddha, The Arty Semite contributor Gordon Haber adds a personal reflection to the circumcision debate in California.
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Bucharest is getting its very first Jewish Film Festival.
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Oskar Schindler’s factory in Krakow has been turned into a contemporary art museum.
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Meet Xu Long, a Chinese chef with a passion for ancient Jewish coins.
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Darren Aronofsky is signed on to direct “Hobgolin,” a pilot for HBO written by husband and wife team Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman about con men and magicians who battle Nazis during World War II.
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Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Orthodox Jewish Milton scholar William Kolbrener about his new book, “Open Minded Torah.”
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Bethlehem Shoals profiles Nadav Samin, a hip-hop pioneer turned Princeton doctoral candidate.
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Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (reviewed on The Arty Semite here) will be shown on over 1,000 screens, making it the widest release of Allen’s career.
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Christopher Hitchens takes on David Mamet in The New York Times.
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Why a photography book with pictures of nude men skiing was a bestseller in Nazi Germany.
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The Daily News profiles 84-year-old Brooklyn inventor George Weiss:
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