This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rijn, ?Portrait of Christ,? c. 1655-57. Courtesy of The Hyde Collection
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Menachem Wecker examines the Jewishness of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus.
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Joseph Skibell travels to France to take a master class with guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan.
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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.
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Philologos potchkies around.
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