An elder jazzman
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On Aug. 14, Ben Sidran, the renowned jazz pianist, composer, chronicler of American music and raconteur, will ...
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Local author remembers his father’s struggle against Nazism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s hard to tell how angry Paul Mayer was at the Nazis who ended his law ...
Mysterious Maria Lani, in words and pictures
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The Woman With Fifty Faces has several faces of its own. On its face, so to ...
Ben Sidran tours the Midwest, again
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone this week from his home in Madison, Wisc., Ben Sidran discussed some of his ...
Berlin today
The “Jewish Memorial Sculpture” was created by Will Lammert just prior to his death in 1957. Incomplete, the group of ...
Gehry’s masterpieces
A general view from Main Street of the three components of the Chiat/Day complex, Venice, Calif., including what’s known as ...
Harpsichordist Richard Siegel shares his music with the world
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Most people don’t think of the harpsichord as a very Jewish instrument, but the revival of the ...
A prized Marc Chagall painting was stolen in the ’90s. It has resurfaced at an Israeli auction.
By KAREN CHERNICK TEL AVIV (JTA) — “Where’s the Chagall?” asked a visitor to this city’s Gordon Gallery on a ...
Three Russian-born Jewish geniuses
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN About the only good thing to be said for Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement under ...
A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ PARIS (JTA) — As a French celebrity philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut belongs to a tiny group of VIPs who ...
