Out and About: Intellectuals for Palestine; Jerry Leiber’s Oscar Wilde
By Ezra Glinter August 29, 2011
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In this week’s New Yorker, Alex Ross discusses Mieczysław Weinberg’s Holocuast opera, “The Passenger.”
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A new petition initiated by playwright Joshua Sobol and poet Taha Muhammad Ali calls on Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals to support a Palestinian state.
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Israel is using tax breaks and terrorism insurance to lure Hollywood production.
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Before he died, lyricist Jerry Leiber had been working on a nearly-completed musical about Oscar Wilde.
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Berlin’s municipal library is set to return about 70 books confiscated from their owners during the Nazi era.
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Are Jewish novelists averse to experimental fiction?
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Forward contributors Gordon Haber and Joshua Furst visit the Sheikh Jarrah protests in Jerusalem.
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Allan Nadler appreciates the work and legacy of Der Nister, a largely-forgotten Soviet Yiddish literary master.
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The Boston Globe reviews a new exhibit by Holocaust painter Samuel Bak.
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At Tablet Magazine, Ellen Umansky talks to writer Bruce jay Friedman about his novels, stories, plays and more.
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Read the winners of the second Unpious.com submission contest.
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