Out and About
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By Ezra Glinter January 19, 2012
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Joseph Cedar’s film “Footnote” has been nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language category.
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Leonard Cohen has a poem in this week’s New Yorker.
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Joshua Cohen writes about smuggling a suitcase full of books to Berlin.
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A British publisher wants to reissue “Mein Kampf” in Germany, but the Bavarian copyright holders are having none of it.
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Forward contributor Nathan Abrams has received a £76,000 grant to write about the Jewish side of Stanley Kubrick.
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The opponents of Hasidim also had their stories, according to a new book by Dovid Katz.
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Gary Shteyngart has turned the back-cover blurb into its own literary form.
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The Globe theater has come under fire for inviting the Israeli Habima Theater to participate in its Globe to Globe festival.
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