Out and About: Norman Mailer’s Pad; Cairo Geniza Online
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter October 24, 2011
-
Gareth Unwin, producer of “The King’s Speech,” is hoping to increase cooperation between the British and Israeli film industries.
-
A dispute has arisen over the sale of Norman Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment due to custom renovations performed by the late author.
-
A new project is afoot to digitize the Cairo Geniza.
-
The Jewish Museum in Vienna has reopened with an exhibit about Jews and Hollywood.
-
David Foster Wallace sends a fax.
-
The Groggers’ new video for “The Shidduch Hits the Fan” is out.
-
Shimon Peres has a new book out about Israeli’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
It’s our birthday and we’re still celebrating!
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news.
This week we celebrate 129 years of the Forward. We’re proud of our origins as a Yiddish print publication serving Jewish immigrants. And we’re just as proud of what we’ve become today: A trusted source of Jewish news and opinion, available digitally to anyone in the world without paywalls or subscriptions.
We’ve helped five generations of American Jews make sense of the news and the world around them — and we aren’t slowing down any time soon.
As a nonprofit newsroom, reader donations make it possible for us to do this work. Support independent, agenda-free Jewish journalism and our board will match your gift in honor of our birthday!
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
