A new website on music and the Holocaust has been launched in Berlin. Simon Dinnerstein discusses his monumental 1970s artwork, “The Fulbright Triptych.” Russian novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya’s “Daniel Stein, Interpreter,” a book that takes its inspiration from the real life Polish Jewish Partisan Oswald Rufeisen, is now available in English. Dutch Jewish novelist and Holocaust…
Flavorwire previews an exhibit of sculptures by Sol LeWitt, on view in New York at City Hall Park. Gary Shteyngart has won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, the first American to ever receive the honor. In Bob Dylan birthday news this week, singer-songwriter Nikki Jean performs one of his unfinished songs, while newly released…
Allan Nadler reviews “The Mixed Multitude,” a study of “serial apostate, sexual deviant, messianic pretender and chameleonic charlatan” Jacob Frank. Sara Ivry interviews David Unger about his novel “The Price of Escape,” the story of a German- Jewish refugee’s misadventures in Guatemala. Filmmaker Saul Sudin on Lars Von Trier’s disgrace, and Joseph Cedar’s triumph, at…
The Library of Congress [has launched][1] an online “National Jukebox” of some 10,000 historical recordings. The New York Times profiles guitarist Gary Lucas on the occasion of his new CD, “The Ordeal of Civility.” Argentine artist Marta Minujine has built a 25-meter Tower of Babel out of 30,000 books. A student remembers Yeshiva University economics…
Filmmaker Ethan Coen is set to publish his second poetry collection, titled “The Day the World Ends,” next near. Shtetl Magazine reviews “The Joyful Child” by Montreal novelist Norman Ravvin. NPR profiles mother-daughter klezmer duo Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts. Woody Allen spills the beans on life in show business. The U.S. National Archives…
Jerry Seinfeld plans to release nearly all of his recorded standup on his website, Jerryseinfeld.com, tomorrow. The latest LABA Journal is out, featuring Elissa Strauss on why she won’t marry King David, Basmat Hazan on why we definitely need to pay attention to what David is wearing, and Stephen Hazan Arnoff on Justin Bieber, the…
Branko Lustig, producer of “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” plans to hold his (belated) bar mitzvah at Auschwitz. The Yiddish Book Center has put the family photos of Yiddish writer Scholem Asch online. Joshua Cohen interviews Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk for The Paris Review. Jeffrey Goldberg on the trials and tribulations of Sister Mary Schmuck of…
Essayist Phillip Lopate ponders “Scribble, Scribble, Scribble” a new miscellany by historian Simon Schama. Has Paul Simon been getting the attention he deserves? The Canadian Jewish News profiles former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler. Two synagogue restoration projects in Poland have won awards, one of them for “façade of the year.” Bryna Wasserman, artistic…
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