This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter July 3, 2011
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Jay Michaelson suggests a third way in the San Francisco circumcision controversy.
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Philologos wonders whether Vice President Biden used the word “shtick” correctly.
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Mark Oppenheimer dishes on Robert Gottlieb’s not-salacious-enough collection of essays.
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Menachem Wecker visits a music festival dedicated to the heroism of Bulgaria’s Righteous Gentiles.
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Benjamin Ivry remembers Jean Zay, co-founder of the Cannes Film Festival and France’s minister of education and fine arts in the 1930s.
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Philip Hollander considers the rich body of Hebrew literature in the Diaspora.
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I report on the Folkbiene — National Yiddish Theatre’s new executive director.
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In the latest Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to writer/musician Michael Hearst.
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