Out and About: Marc Chagall in Canada; Dura Europos Uncovered
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter October 17, 2011
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Marc Chagall and his contemporaries get a reappraisal at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Max Elstein Keisler thinks about Y-Love and Aramaic hip-hop.
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Ayelet Dekel talks to filmmaker Julia Loktev at the Haifa Film Festival.
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An exhibit at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brings to life the Jews, Christians and Pagans who once lived in Dura-Europos, and the archeologists who unearthed the ancient settlement.
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Richard Pipes reviews Joshua Rubenstein’s “Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life.”
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David Bezmozgis’s “The Free World,” has been nominated for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award and the Giller Prize.
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Nazi-looted art has been found at the Kunsthaus museum in Zurich.
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Israeli researchers have devised a new algorithm to decode the Bible.
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Italian Jewish writer Roberto Saviano has ben awarded the 2011 PEN/Pinter prize for his work on the Naples mafia.
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