This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
By Ezra Glinter August 22, 2011
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Binyomin Ginzberg profiles Chilik Frank, a master Breslov clarinet player.
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Mark Oppenheimer reviews Lee Siegel’s “Are You Serious?: How To Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly.”
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On the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, we feature Israeli author Ada Pagis’s story about a speculative image.
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Josh Lambert reviews Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle’s “Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land,” a “postvernacular tour de force.”
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Philologos explains why Amy Winhouse really was a “nice Jewish girl.”
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Rex Wiener describes how rabbis are taking sermon tips from Hollywood screenwriters.
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Benjamin Ivry appreciates the work of French novelist Patrick Modiano whose imagination still dwells on his father’s murky activities surviving in Occupied Paris.
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