The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv is showing Andy Warhol’s Jewish portraits. Folk legend Pete Seeger supports a financial, but not an artistic boycott of Israel. “Hitler and the Germans,” an exhibit at Berlin’s German Historical Museum, is a huge hit. Also a huge hit in Germany: Israeli bands. Leonard Bernstein’s late…
The once-seedy Tel Aviv suburb of Holon has become a major tourist destination thanks to its arts scene. The Milken Archive of Jewish Music has launched a virtual museum. A Jewish big band in New York’s East Village is attracting jazz talent from all over the Tri-State Region. British Jewish filmmaker Mike Leigh has canceled…
David Grossman has won the German Book Trade Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Isaac Bashevis Singer comes to Carbondale, Illinois. As the music consultant for The Israeli Opera, Idan Raichel has chosen Vieux Farka Touré to open the new season on November 26. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in…
Meet Avi Yitzhak, Israel’s first Ethiopian fashion designer. Jewish Fiction .net, “the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction,” has launched. Roberto Rodriguez and Abraham Inc. are among several Jewish-y acts included in the Village Voice’s Jazz Consumer Guide. The fourth annual Tel Aviv Dance festival opens today, bringing 12 international…
How a machinist named Martin Cohen became the pre-eminent photographer of New York’s Latin music scene. Montreal’s Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen is set to be turned into a musical. Is it time to update the Hebrew alphabet for the Internet age? Read an interview with Allen Ginsberg collaborator and “Howl!” illustrator Eric Drooker. The trailer for…
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