Arts
A historian’s complicated motives
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, by Lisa Moses Leff,...
Lee Friedlander photos reveal American culture
Yale University Art Gallery has published the first two volumes of photographs by Lee Friedlander (born 1934). The two handsome,...
In the groove through ‘twintuition’
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The opening track on The Potash Twins, the new album from identical twins Ezra Potash (bass trombone)...
Pissarro’s mother, a free spirit
The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, Simon and Schuster, 365 pages, $27.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Around Rachel, the...
New CDs cover jazz, klezmer and Sephardic tunes
Big Galut(e), Big Galut(e) Festivals are known for bringing people together, but for Sasha Margolis and Robin Seletsky there was...
'Ally': A diplomat bridges the divide
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, by Michael Oren, Random House, 412 pages, $30 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER From...
Etgar Keret on birth, death and mysteries
Author Etgar Keret is sort of the Israeli Kafka. His new book, The Seven Good Years (Riverhead Books) — billed...
'Amy': Just a Jewish girl from North London
The new documentary about Amy Winehouse humanizes the story of an immensely talented and troubled singer By MORDECAI SPECKTOR I...
Potash Twins record new album
Music business luminary Steven Greenberg is the album’s executive producer By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Potash Twins, trumpeter Adeev and trombonist...
Fringe Festival kicks off July 30
The 2015 festival features more than a dozen shows with Jewish themes or performers By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Many years ago,...
