A new book fails to exonerate Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. What accounts for the enduring fame of Walter Benjamin? And why isn’t Moses Mendelssohn similarly remembered? Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” has won the prize for best film at the European Film Awards, while Samuel Maoz’s “Lebanon” took home two other awards. Read new fiction…
Can Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim create a classical music revival? Greil Marcus talks about 40 years of writing about Bob Dylan. An exhibit of Palestinian art opens in Jaffa. Israeli film ambassador Meir Fenigstein doesn’t think Israel will receive an Oscar nomination this year. Neither does The Arty Semite. Christopher Glazek rips into…
On February 22, this year’s annual benefit for Theater For The New City’s Emerging Playwrights Program at the National Arts Club honors acting couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, which seems only natural. In 2005, Wallach released his delightful autobiography “The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage,” but at 94, Brooklyn-born Wallach is…
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