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Culture Was David Bowie’s Last Work About Bob Dylan and a Jewish Poet?
According to an essay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter Michael Cunningham (“The Hours”), the David Bowie musical “Lazarus” was initially conceived as a show about the great Jewish-American poet, Emma Lazarus, who is best known for her sonnet, “The New Colossus,” whose lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of…
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The Schmooze Meet Lorraine Schwartz, the Jewish Queen of Oscars Bling
If you haven’t heard of Lorraine Schwartz, you must not be keeping up with the Kardashians. Or Beyonce, or Barbra Streisand, or Angelina Jolie: just some of the celebrities Schwartz considers her closest friends and clients. Every awards season, fashion houses clamor to dress each starlet, from Hollywood royalty to the next “It” girl. But…
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The Schmooze When David Bowie Was Welcomed to America — by His ‘Adoptive’ Jewish Family
(JTA) — David Bowie didn’t start his first trip to the United States with a drug-filled party or a wild show, but with a quiet evening at the home of a Maryland Jewish family. The late English rocker had just released the album “The Man Who Sold the World,” which built on the success of…
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The Schmooze David Bowie’s Favorite Jewish Authors — From Bellow to Weschler
While fans are marking David Bowie’s death by revisiting the decades of art he created in his life, we thought it’d be interesting to take a look Bowie’s list of his 100 favorite books, released as part of a 2013 exhibit on the artist’s career at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Bowie’s literary interests, like…
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The Schmooze WATCH: When David Bowie Rocked Tel Aviv
The world is mourning the death of rock legend David Bowie after news of his passing January 10 following an 18-month battle with cancer. We at the Forward remember as well with these videos from his 1996 concert in Israel when the musician shared the stage with British band Massive Attack. Bowie was all smiles…
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