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Essay What the Lifetime Adaptation of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent Missed Earlier this week, Michal Lemberger wrote about turning King David into a villain and Lot’s wife and the other nameless women of the Bible. She is the author of the… Michal Lemberger April 24, 2015
Essay Into The Stew Elisa Albert is the author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia, the short story collection How This Night is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s… Elisa Albert February 17, 2015
Essay We’ve Got the Moves: Jewish Madness on Madison Avenue Earlier this week, Kerri P. Steinberg wrote about the Jewish women in advertising a in 1960s New York. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish Mad… Kerri P. Steinberg January 29, 2015
Essay Jewish Mad Women Kerri P. Steinberg is an associate professor of art history at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish… Kerri P. Steinberg January 26, 2015
Essay Woody Guthrie’s Hanukkah Songs Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut, PhD is the author of A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish (Rutgers University Press). Visit his web site and seasonal blog at… Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut December 15, 2014
Essay Fiddler at Fifty by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on Tuesday, September 22, 1964 at New York City’s Imperial Theater. To mark its… Edward Shapiro December 9, 2014
Essay The Comings and Goings of Songs in “Fiddler on the Roof” Earlier this week Barbara Isenberg wrote about reminiscing with Bel Kaufman about Sholem Aleichem. She is the author of Tradition!, is an award winning journalist… Barbara Isenberg September 4, 2014
Nonfiction Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical Barbara Isenberg
Essay Draper and the Jewess Leah Umansky is the author of the Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press 2014) and Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox 2013). She curates… Leah Umansky April 8, 2014
Nonfiction A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Liel Leibovitz
Nonfiction Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
