Yiddish Renaissance: Part I
“We were excited enough …about the idea of… a Yiddish theatre ‘dream team:’ a group of perhaps 10-12 people with complementary skills and experience who could pool their talents and work...
“We were excited enough …about the idea of… a Yiddish theatre ‘dream team:’ a group of perhaps 10-12 people with complementary skills and experience who could pool their talents and work...
Die tote Stadt Many essays have been written regarding the myriad definitions and re-definitions of “Jewish music.” But in the end, like Jewish art, language, cuisine, and even history, what is meant...
Discoveries in the visual arts held the spotlight during the past several months, much of it focused on news about Jewish painters whose works are being reevaluated by prominent individuals in the...
This fall examples of fiction and theater inspired by the personal histories of their Jewish creators will be in the news. American audiences are eagerly awaiting the October Broadway opening of...
Daniel Libeskind. Credit: commons.wikimedia.org When Daniel Libeskind speaks, he invites his audience to enter a world in which his unique thought process has the power to alter their perception. The...
Although the figure of Moses appears in a frieze at the Supreme Court and at the House of House of Representatives along with Moses Maimonides, Oscar Straus is still the only Jewish person whose...
Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009) New York, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy © Film Documents, LLC, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany and The Photographers’ Gallery, London.Sporting...
Saul Steinberg, 1978 – Photo: en.wikipedia.org As relevant and as fascinating as ever, the art of Romanian-American artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) continues to be seen, discussed and...
Beginning in the mid-1930s, worldwide efforts were made to bring persecuted Jewish children out of Germany. As Hitler set his sights on conquest, the lives of boys and girls from other nations were...