Michael Goldfarb celebrates the Man Booker Prize win by English Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans on giving an honorary Oscar to Jean-Luc Godard. But will they be honoring an anti-Semite? Benjamin Ivry investigates. Fifty years after his initial rise to fame, novelty songwriter Allan Sherman is as…
“The Pieces of Me: L.A. GOAL,” a new exhibit at Los Angeles’s Skirball Cultural Center, inverts the challenge of most contemporary art shows. Typically, genre-defying works by important-to-know names hang on a blank wall, demanding interpretation. A brief scholarly paragraph may accompany selected pieces, but the viewer must summon their own aesthetic lexicon to construct…
Ranen Omer-Sherman leafs through “Turn Right at the End,” a controversial comic book series by Israeli artist Sivan Hurvitz. Philologos gets devilish. Stuart Schoffman reviews Philip Roth’s latest novel, “Nemesis.” I review Elie Wiesel’s latest novel, “The Sonderberg Case.” Allan Nadler reviews the unfortunately titled “The Relationship of Orthodox Jews With Believing Jews of Other…
Gavriel Rosenfeld notes the textual inspiration for the new synagogue in Mainz. Nathan Burstein takes a look at “Nuremberg,” a documentary finally getting its American premiere after 62 years. Susie Linfield goes to see the current performance by Israel’s Batsheva dance company. In Eli Valley’s latest comic, the Jewish community finds salvation in an unlikely…
A drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee, who was villfied by the Nazis, who also stole his work from Jewish collectors, has finally been returned to its rightful owner by the Israel Museum. According to this AP story, the drawing, entitled “Veil Dance,” had been owned by German Jewish telephone maker Harry Fuld, Jr. When…
Afternoon blues? Plug in your earphones and check out this hilarious new clip by the DJ duo Duck Sauce, posted on the New York Times ArtsBeat blog.
It’s Sukkos! And though the Sukkah City architecture contest may no longer be on display in Union Square, we’ve got plenty of coverage for your vicarious enjoyment. Maia Efrem walks us through the finalists; Nate Lavey treats us to a video on location, and Gabrielle Birkner talks to rabbinic consultant Dani Passow in an audio…
“Howl!,” the Allen Ginsberg biopic starring James Franco, comes out this week. Jake Marmer takes a look at Ginsberg’s literary afterlife in print, film and comic form. On Rosh Hashanah we eat fish heads — architect Frank Ghery made fish lamps instead. Gavriel Rosenfeld tells us why. On Yom Kippur we wish each other a…
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