Arts

A sheltered Polish orphan about to become a nun learns that she has an aunt, and that she’s from a...

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, by George Prochnik, Other Press, 390 pages, $27.95 Reviewed...

“Who doesn’t love a knish?” asks Joan Rivers, in one of the epigraphs for Knish: In Search of the Jewish...

American Jewish World invites you and a guest to an advance screening of Obvious Child 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27 at...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Musicologists say that the banjo had its origins in West Africa. A number of banjo-type instruments have...

Israeli native Oran Etkin grew up in the United States, and he credits this country’s blues and jazz musicians (Yusef...

The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Princeton, 431 pages, $29.95...

The Rimon Artist Salon Series will conclude its season with “Writing Backwards: Finding Meaning in a Family’s Past” 7 p.m....

Ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine is a lifelong proponent of partnered dancing as a way to develop social skills and self-confidence...

Marking 10 years of recording and performing success, the Idan Raichel Project schedules a St. Paul concert By MORDECAI SPECKTOR...