Out and About: New Director at The Jewish Museum; Hitler, Hitler Everywhere!
?Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse,? one of the three disputed works by George Grosz. Image by Courtesy of MoMA
By Ezra Glinter August 25, 2011
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The Jewish Museum has chosen Claudia Gould, head of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, as its new director.
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Speaking of Jewish museums, are there just too many of them?
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Hitler has become a symbol of popular subversion in China.
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Hitler has taken over television programming at the BBC.
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Which includes a drama about Hans Litten, a Jewish lawyer who humiliated the future dictator in court.
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The heirs of George Grosz are trying to recover several paintings that the artist left behind in Berlin, and which are currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art.
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Seth Lipsky applauds the Forward’s reporting on George Washington’s letter to the Jews in the Wall Street Journal.
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A French Canadian game show has decided that Jerusalem is in Palestine.
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Will Woody Allen’s next film be filmed in Munich?
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Joshua Cohen appreciates Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas, author of “one of his country’s strangest, most ambitious literary achievements.”
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Obama’s vacation reading reportedly includes David Grossman’s “To the End of the Land.”
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Ruta Sakowska, a world-renowned expert on the Warsaw Ghetto, and Raphael Halpern, a rabbi, body builder, pro-wrestler and optical chain magnate, have died.
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