This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rijn, ?Portrait of Christ,? c. 1655-57. Courtesy of The Hyde Collection

By Forward Staff September 4, 2011

Menachem Wecker examines the Jewishness of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus.
Joseph Skibell travels to France to take a master class with guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan.
Alexander Gelfand travels to Istanbul in search of the lost Jewish music of the Ottoman Empire.

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Phillip Lutz profiles 15-year-old Israeli jazz piano prodigy Gadi Lehavi.
Philologos potchkies around.

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