It was one of the strangest Jewish records ever made — good luck finding a way to listen to it
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
She survived pogroms, Stalin and more — by safely avoiding the spotlight
A new exhibit on the early ’60s has little to do with Judaism or Jewish identity. Why is it at the Jewish Museum?
The internet can be a scary, terrible, racist, sexist, garbage-fire of a place (4-chan exists, lest we forget). But frequently, the internet offers up a site that can remind you of its incredible potential – its potential for delightful weirdness, its potential for the democratic proliferation of knowledge. I know that I’m a little (okay,…
“There’s always this joke that half of Tel Aviv is actually here,” Liad Hussein Kantorowicz told me when I interviewed her in her Berlin apartment. The numbers back her up: According to the latest estimates, 15,000 to 20,000 people have left Israel in recent years to forge a new life in Berlin. Most of these…
In the bad old days, when downtown Manhattan was still overrun by scruffy, industrious, half-lunatic artists exploring the possibilities of theater and performance with great purpose but no thought toward the market, Richard Foreman was our rabbi. Each spring, a new play written, directed and designed by him would appear at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the…
Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist By Helène Aylon The Feminist Press, 350 pages, $29.95 Walking through the “Too Jewish?” exhibit at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum back in 1997, surveying the artistic commentaries on popular tropes of American Jewish culture — big noses, Barbra Streisand,…
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