This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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I revisit the life and work of the great music and cultural critic Ellen Willis.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit pays homage to a colonial-era circumcision set.
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Carol Zemel explores the irony-laden work of Israeli artist Yael Bartana, who is representing Poland at this year’s Venice Biennale.
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Shoshana Olidort and Jake Marmer review the letters of Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli with some letters of their own.
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Graham Lawson documents the struggle to bring a Picasso to Ramallah.
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Adam Rovner reviews a new book by Guy Alroey, showing that Jews left Europe for news of economic opportunity dispensed by Jewish information bureaus more often than they did for fear of pogroms.
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Benjamin Ivry honors Georg Tintner, an overlooked Vienna-born conductor who spent most of his career in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
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Philologos celebrates the disappearing German Jewish tradion of the Wimpel.