Ezra Glinter
Forward Writer Is Finalist as Daniel Gordis and Michael Chabon Win National Jewish Book Awards
The 2016 National Jewish Book Awards honored Gordis for “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” and Chabon for “Moonglow.”
New Jewish Literary Journal Pays Tribute to Vilna Ghetto Heroes
What the original Paper Brigade did will astonish you.
At Launch of Forward Anthology, A Celebration of Yiddish Fiction
A new anthology of fiction from the Forward makes a powerful argument for the ongoing relevance of Yiddish literature.
How We Tracked Down the Best Yiddish Stories of the Past Century — and More
“Have I Got a Story For You” features more than a century’s worth of Yiddish stories from the Forward. Anthology editor Ezra Glinter tells us how he picked the best of the best.
My Lipa Schmeltzer Problem, and Ours
When Lipa Schmeltzer’s new music video, “Hang Up the Phone,” hit the Internet last week, I didn’t know what to think. What on God’s green earth was this?
Q&A: Accordion Author Marion Jacobson
Before Marion Jacobson discovered the accordion, she was a classical music critic for The Washington Post and an academic with a doctorate in ethnomusicology from New York University. But after wandering into Manhattan’s Main Squeeze accordion store in the fall of 2001, she knew she had found a new passion. So, needing to make space in her cramped Brooklyn apartment for her first child, she traded a Baldwin upright piano for a friend’s ruby-red Delicia Carmen accordion. Now Jacobson’s piano is the house instrument at the Brooklyn music venue Barbes, and Jacobson is the author of “Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America,” out this month from the University of Illinois Press. She spoke to The Arty Semite about her dream instrument, her “desert island” album and the man she considers the “Michael Jackson of the accordion.”
