Culture
Talking to Tevye . . . or at least the man playing him
Steve MarkMar 16, 2023
Jonathan Hashmonay, 29, plays the lead character Tevye in the Broadway stage tour of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Denver at the Buell Theatre, March 14-19.
Concert in memory of Shira Pransky grows from 25 to 1,400
Chaim GoldbergFeb 23, 2023
From 25 people to 1,400? From a humble Shira Pransky Project benefit concert to a much larger Yad l’Olim concert, in memory of the daughter of Nate and Amy Davidovich,...
Schlossberg memoir recounts six decades in show biz
JTAFeb 23, 2023
On a couple of occasions in Julian Schlossberg’s early life, he found himself in parts of the US where some people he talked to had never met a Jewish person. The...
Abraham Lincoln, a New York Cantor and the Union Army
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAFeb 16, 2023
In Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army, historian Adam D. Mendelsohn recalls the story of how Cantor Arnold Fischel persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to...
Ten questions for Avishai Cohen
Israel21cFeb 02, 2023
Among the young Israelis who started to migrate to New York City in the 1990s, Avishai Cohen made an Israeli jazz fairy tale come true when he jived with pianist Chick...
Sydney Taylor awards announced
Penny Schwartz, JTAFeb 02, 2023
An illustrated book about an inspiring Holocaust survivor and two works of fantasy featuring dybbuks and Jewish demons have won this year’s top prizes in Jewish...
London museum seeks famous clothes made by Jews
JTAFeb 02, 2023
David Bowie, Greta Garbo and Sean Connery were not Jewish. But some of the garments they made famous — Bowie’s dresses, Garbo’s hats and the tuxedo Connery donned...
‘Turn Every Page’ explores the relationship between literary colleagues
JTAJan 26, 2023
It is the relationship between editor and writer that his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, a documentary filmmaker, explores in her latest film, “Turn Every Page: The...
A verdant Baha’i pantheon in Israel
JNSJan 19, 2023
A Baha’i shrine that will house the remains of one of the three central founders of the faith is under construction in the port city of Acre in what will be the third...
Irish-Jewish genealogical archives now in Israel’s National Library
JTADec 29, 2022
Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries of Jewish life in Ireland.
