Out and About: Bollywood in Israel; Iraq’s Jewish Book Trove
Image by Paolo Garretto
By Ezra Glinter July 14, 2011
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Bollywood filmmakers are visiting Israel to make connections and scout locations during the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
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Prolific and influential graphic designer and Vanity Fair caricaturist Paolo Garretto was once a member of Mussolini’s bodyguards.
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A collection of Jewish Iraqi books discovered in a basement used by Saddam Hussein’s secret police and recovered during the 2003 invasion of Iraq is now the subject of dispute between the Iraqi and American governments.
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Is Richard Feynman a genuine scientific superstar?
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JDub Records is closing. Here’s the official statement.
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Marta Kauffman, creator of the sitcom “Friends,” and Roberta Grossman, a documentary filmmaker, are getting together to make a movie about the history of “Hava Nagilah.”
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Kenneth Sherman calls attention to Yuri Suhl’s “One Foot in America,” a long-neglected, recently reissued novel of the immigrant experience.
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Adam Kirsch reviews “Réne Blum and the Ballets Russes,” a new biography about the elusive French Jewish ballet impresario.
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A new piece of software is shedding new light on the authorship of the Bible.
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How both Bobby Fischer and Isaac Newton create difficulties for biographers.
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Remembering Yavneh, a pioneering Modern Orthodox student organization.
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Hundreds of once-lost photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s have been discovered and are on display.
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Street art meets the spiritual at a Brooklyn art show.
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How André Aciman’s writing on New York rivals that of E.B. White.
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Theodore Roszak, author of “The Making of a Counter Culture,” has died at age 77.
