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Arts & Culture

Essay

Imag­in­ing Bud­dy & Holly

The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of My Father’s Gui­tar and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Sto­ries author Joseph Ski­bell orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book…
Joseph Ski­bell
October 30, 2015
Essay

Go by the Country

Ear­li­er this week, Rita Lakin shared what inspired her com­e­dy mys­tery nov­els about 80-year-olds solv­ing crime in Flori­da. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
Rita Lakin
October 21, 2015
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Non­fic­tion
The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Tele­vi­sion Writer
Rita Lakin
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Non­fic­tion
Proust: The Search
Benjamin Taylor
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Non­fic­tion
Peg­gy Guggen­heim: The Shock of the Modern
Francine Prose
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Visu­al Arts
Jews and the Indi­an Nation­al Art Project
Kenneth X. Robbins, Marvin Tokayer, eds.
Essay

‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew?

Aviya Kush­n­er is the author of The Gram­mar of God, a mem­oir of her Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blog­ging here all week for the Jew­ish…
Aviya Kush­n­er
September 8, 2015
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Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past is Being Nor­mal­ized in Con­tem­po­rary Culture
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
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Mach­ers and Rock­ers: Chess Records And The Busi­ness of Rock and Roll
Rich Cohen
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Cap­tur­ing a Van­ished World: Last Folio by Yuri Dojc & Katya Krausova

Post­ed by Bec­ca KantorLast Folio: A Pho­to­graph­ic Mem­o­ry offers a haunt­ing glimpse into the traces of van­ished Jew­ish life in Slo­va­kia, the first coun­try to…
Bec­ca Kantor
July 2, 2015
Essay

We’re Liv­ing in a Gold­en Age of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art & Don’t Real­ly Know It

Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about anti-Semit­ic images of Jews in Amer­i­can humor mag­a­zines and social con­cern and left pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can art.…
Matthew Baigell
July 1, 2015
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Visu­al Arts
Degen­er­ate Art: The Attack on Mod­ern Art in Nazi Ger­many 1937
Olaf Peters
Essay

Prej­u­dice Porn: Images of Jews in Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940

Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about social con­cern and left pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can art. He is the author of a recent­ly pub­lished book on the top­ic…
Matthew Baigell
June 30, 2015
Essay

Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art

Matthew Baigell is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus in the Depart­ment of Art His­to­ry at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of numer­ous books, includ­ing Amer­i­can Artists,…
Matthew Baigell
June 29, 2015
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Sus­pi­cious Minds: How Cul­ture Shapes Madness
Ian and Jeff Gold
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Fic­tion
The Mural­ist: A Novel
B.A. Shapiro
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