Rachel Rubinstein looks to the future of Yiddish literature in translation. Jay Michaelson questions the intuitive power of religion. Jenna Weissman Joselit wonders what Cyrus Adler would have thought of contemporary museum going. Gordon Haber gets depressed by Yael Hedaya’s “Eden.” Alexander Gelfand listens to the evolution of Jewish music at the Folksbiene. Philologos goes…
A longer version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. The son of a Jewish shoe store owner, Gustav Landauer became famous and was killed as a Jewish-German anarchist, having abandoned religion in his youth. Born in 1870, in Karlsruhe, Germany, Landauer’s interests were political and literary, not religious. By the early 20th century, however,…
After the honorifics at last year’s MOMA festival and the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors, someone must have decided director Mike Nichols has not been praised enough lately. Riding to the rescue is the American Film Institute, which will present Nichols with its 38th AFI Life Achievement Award today. Nichols will thereby be placed alongside great…
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