Arts
‘The Wandering Muse’: Thrilling vitality in diasporic Jewish music
The Wandering Muse, a new DVD from IndiePix Films, presents a hugely entertaining survey of contemporary music from the Jewish...
Anne Frank’s image and self-image
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Three concerns arise immediately when confronting Ari Folman's and David Polansky's clever, illustrated adaptation of Anne...
Aaron Goldberg’s lyrical approach
“Poinciana,” the first song on pianist Aaron Goldberg’s enjoyable new album, At the Edge of the World (Sunnyside), features “embodirhythm,”...
Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land: Exile and restoration
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Oxford's new History of the Holy Land is an ambitious, erudite and handsome, if incomplete achievement....
Jewish Humor: Stand-up, Simpsons and super-heroes
AJW Staff Report The Twin Cities Jewish Humor Festival is now 10 years old. Started by Fringe Festival and Twin...
Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with...
Daniel Kahn’s ‘Yiddish punk cabaret’
Publicity for The Butcher’s Share (Oriente Musik), the new album by Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird, notes that the ensemble...
MMAA finds new home in St. Paul’s Lowertown
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Like the wandering remnants of the Kingdom of Judah who finally found a home in Eretz Yisrael,...
Robert Mnookin: The big tent of Judaism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being Jewish should be a matter of choice, not descent, says Robert Mnookin, who says the...
Alice Walker endorses book by anti-Semitic author
by SAM SOKOL (JTA) — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker has come under intense criticism after endorsing a book by...
