Al Jolson
Yom Kippur Playlist: Hot Tunes for Judgment Day
J.J. Goldberg is back with a Yom Kippur playlist. Among the guest artists are Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse, Eminem, Chava Alberstein and Bob Dylan. Listen, enjoy and repent!
Songs to Atone By: Dylan, Jolson, Streisand, Oysher
As we approach Yom Kippur, J.J. Goldberg has put together a song list to capture the spirit of the day including tunes by Dylan, Streisand and The Beatles.
Retelling Jewish American Story Through History of Cinema
Is there such a thing as the American Jewish story? One way to answer the question is though the lens of 12 Hollywood films, including every version of ‘The Jazz Singer.’
Alma Gluck: A Jew in Blackface
The first record by a classical artist to sell 1 million copies was ‘Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,’ sung by a Romanian Jewish soprano who knew bupkis about Virginia.
Eva Braun Blackface Photo Reveals Her Love of Jewish Film
Hitler’s girlfriend apparently loved a film focused on the struggle to maintain Jewish tradition.
Yom Kippur on the Big Screen
Would you shut up? I’m trying to atone!” That line comes in the opening scene of “Kissing Jessica Stein” delivered by the titular character, as she sits in the pews on Yom Kippur and tries to fend off her relatives’ too-eager advice about snagging a man before next year’s Book of Life is shut. Jessica, the wound-up-way-too-tight artist-turned journalist whose dating travails will soon lead her to enter a same-sex relationship, reaches her boiling point to the backdrop of the rabbi’s voice, as mom (played by Tovah Feldshuh and grandma point out the single guys in the congregation and, in loud whispers, wonder why Jess hasn’t dated anyone in a year.