What happened in this German casino will not be staying in this German casino. A gambling establishment in a German spa town will return a Dutch Old Master painting to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany, Bloomberg reports. “The Masters of the Goldsmith Guild in…
Jenna Weissman Joselit looks at Reconstructionist founder Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s efforts to get rid of Kol Nidrei. Sarah Breger goes to see the Jew-tastic cancer comedy “50/50.” Philologs responds to a South African judge, who inquires whether a woman of valor is like rubies, pearls, or maybe coral. Amy Klein provides us with Anthony Weiner’s…
Eli Valley pays tribute to Amy Winehouse. Joanne Jacobson follows Nancy K. Miller on a search for her family’s past. Bill Holdsworth notes the foundational role a handful of Romanian Jews played in the Dada art movement. Joel Schalit reviews three book about the Palestinians. Jonathan Sarna looks back at the history of the Jewish…
Abra Cohen goes looking for Jews at Burning Man. Renee Ghert-Zand takes a look at the effect of Israeli artists on the J14 protests in Israel, and vice versa. Gwen Orel profiles playwright Itamar Moses on the launch of his new play, “Completeness.” Gorden Haber reviews a collection of essays by Polish Jewish leader Adam…
Zoya Cherkassky has been present at every protest in Israel so far this summer, even the million-person march for social justice, held September 3. She also went out to the tent cities in Tel Aviv and Jaffa to paint what she saw there. And while she was there, she offered to help strangers in drawing…
Menachem Wecker examines the Jewishness of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus. Joseph Skibell travels to France to take a master class with guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan. Alexander Gelfand travels to Istanbul in search of the lost Jewish music of the Ottoman Empire. Phillip Lutz profiles 15-year-old Israeli jazz piano prodigy Gadi Lehavi. Philologos potchkies around.
Susan Comninos reviews “The Arrogant Years,” a new memoir from former Forward managing editor Lucette Lagnado. Jordana Horn goes to see “The Debt,” a Hollywood remake of an Israeli spy thriller. Benjamin Ivry revisits the controversy surrounding French modernist and anti-Semite Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Misha Berson reviews a new biography of playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Gordon Haber…
Binyomin Ginzberg profiles Chilik Frank, a master Breslov clarinet player. Mark Oppenheimer reviews Lee Siegel’s “Are You Serious?: How To Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly.” On the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, we feature Israeli author Ada Pagis’s story about a speculative image. Josh Lambert reviews…
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