This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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By Ezra Glinter August 1, 2011
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In our Summer movie special, John Semley casts a critical but approving eye on the re-imagined exploits of Captain America;
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Jenny Hendrix has some harsh words for “Sarah’s Key,” a film about France’s 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv roundup;
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Myra Mniewski relishes the life’s work of the most accomplished translator of Russian literature into German;
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Elizabeth Stone goes through the ups and downs of a family with an autistic child in “Mabul” at the San Francisco Film Festival,
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and Olga Gershenson is impressed by “The Law in these Parts,” a prize-winning documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival about Israel’s legal system in the occupied territories.
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Carol Zemel appreciates the masterful, but not very Jewish, work of Lucian Freud.
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Philologos unveils the many names of eggplant, most of which mean “the anti-flatulence vegetable.”
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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld talks to Luca Zevi, architect of the new Museo Nazionale della Shoah in Rome.
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Benjamin Ivry appreciates the voluminous works of French author Henri Raczymow.
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In the latest Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Janet Reitman, author of “Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion.”
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