The iconic Negev bookstore in Toronto is set to close. “A Sportman’s Guide to the Torah”? Of course there’s such a thing. Will Sacha Baron Cohen be allowed to attend the Oscars in character? Susan Goldman Rubin has won the Association of Jewish Libraries’ Sydney Taylor Book Award for her biography of Leonard Bernstein. Marc…
The Guardian looks into the influence of Yiddish on British theater. Will Hollywood success affect Michael Chabon’s fiction? The latest issue of the LABA Journal is out, featuring essays by Elissa Strauss, Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Karen Loew. J. Hoberman wonders whether we are beginning to see an Obama-inflected cinema. Israeli author Alex Epstein is…
Adele swept the Grammy Awards, winning six different categories. According to a new book, Shakespeare had a Jewish grandfather from Bohemia. Jenna Weissman Joselit writes about the meaning of a Jewish home at the Yiddish Book Center. Alex Ross writes about Philip Glass. Enough said. David Meir Grossman writes for Tablet about the feminist rock…
Jason Diamond writes for The New York Times about the curse of having once been a barista. R. Crumb and Will Eisner are among 130 illustrators creating a three-volume graphic novel version of the western canon. The latest short story by Robert Walser in the New York Review of Books describes the author’s favorite Berlin…
Roseanne Barr is running for president as a Green Party candidate. Shalom Auslander is apparently not the easiest interview of all time. Jason Diamond notes the return of Ivy League style at fashion week. The work of Viennese Jewish playwright Arthur Schnitzler has returned to the New York stage. G-dcast is starting an arts residency…
Israel’s biggest outdoor sculpture exhibition is happening now in Jerusalem. Sam Roberts reviews “Jews and Booze” for The New York Times. Read Jenny Hendrix’s review of the book for the Forward here. Adam Kirsch leafs through the letters of Joseph Roth. Millionare music mogul Alan Melzer left $1 million to his driver and $500,000 to…
The Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics is giving its Golden Pencil award to “Dry Bones” creator Yaakov Kirschen. Forward contributor Robert Zaretsky writes for The New York Times about Paris, as seen through Hollywood’s lens. The Times profiles Yiddish vaudevillian Shane Baker. Read the Forward’s profile of Baker from 2010 here. Keven Shea Adams…
In Brooklyn, Crown Heights is the new Williamsburg. Steven Spielberg may direct a Moses biopic called “Gods and Kings.” The Village Voice’s Jen Doll publishes her lost interview with “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine. George Robinson profiles cellist Maya Baiser and her love of tango for the Jewish Week. Read my profile of Beiser from 2010…
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