Sand And Sensibility
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic For those who enjoy a bit of Judaism at the beach — or in the hammock — here are a some breezy titles.read more
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by Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Ted Solotaroff wanted to name his memoir “Rachmones.” He was certain that there wasn’t a Jewish reader who wouldn’t understand the word Leo Rosten defines...
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by Daniel Schifrin Special To The Jewish Week Publishers Weekly, in its review of the fascinating new book “The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town” (Norton), notes somewhat...
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by Daniel Schifrin Special To The Jewish Week A year ago, James Young, professor of English and Holocaust studies, warned at a conference that artists were starting to become seduced by the Holocaust...
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by Daniel Schifrin Special To The Jewish Week It's unusual for three first-rate contemporary Jewish writers (Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and David Grossman) to pay homage in their fiction to a...
View ArticleOut Of South Africa
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer Whether in “The Nose” or his stop-animation, artist William Kentridge’s work is unmistakably Jewish.The Museum of Modern Art’s new retrospective of the work of the South...
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George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Tim Blake Nelson’s quirky version of a hard-won tikkun olam on view in ‘Leaves of Grass.’Tim Blake Nelson’s new film has a title, “Leaves of Grass,” that has...
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