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Andrew Esensten

Andrew Esensten

Andrew Esensten was J.’s culture editor from 2021 to 2024.

two people walk past a large brick building
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Chad Coerver to step down as Contemporary Jewish Museum director after two years

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 16, 2023
Alina Sivorinovsky, who writes under the pen name Alina Adams, is the author of "My Mother's Secret," which is set in Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region.
Posted inBooks

Eat, Pray, Oy Vey: Decision to pull Elizabeth Gilbert’s Russia-set book worries Jewish writers

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 19, 2023
Josh Young as Shlomo Carlebach in the 2018 Jerusalem production of "Soul Doctor." A movie version will be screened in theaters on June 13.
Posted inCulture

Planned screening of ‘Soul Doctor’ film about Shlomo Carlebach sparks outrage

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 9, 2023June 21, 2023
Family photos of "Before Us" director Hedia Maron and two of her siblings.
Posted inFilm

At SF DocFest, secrets from a Jewish mother’s hippie past

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2023June 7, 2023
Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
Posted inCulture

At 100 and 92, this couple lives in a floating art-filled home on the Berkeley Marina

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2023April 24, 2024
covers of "We Set the Night on Fire," "Sculpting a Life" and "Workin' for a Livin'"
Posted inCulture

New books by local authors dive into music biz, gay history, sci-fi and Jewish theology

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 24, 2023May 25, 2023
Tupac Shakur (left) met Leila Steinberg when he was a 17-year-old senior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. She managed him from 1989 to 1993. (Photo/Kathy Crawford)
Posted inMusic

‘Dear Mama’: Leila Steinberg, Tupac’s first manager, sees new docuseries as a chance to heal

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 9, 2023June 22, 2023
“The Scottsboro Boys" has a nearly all-Black cast and uses the structure of a minstrel show as a narrative device to expose the racism of white Southerners. (Photo/42nd Street Moon)
Posted inTheater

‘Scottsboro Boys’: Kander and Ebb’s musical about racism and injustice playing in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2023May 11, 2023
Scott Gerber, a Jewish rancher and musician in Petaluma, appears in "Jews of the Wild West." (Photo/Electric Yolk Media)
Posted inFilm

‘Jews of the Wild West,’ set to air on KQEH, tips hat to ‘Girl Rabbi’ from S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 21, 2023April 24, 2023
cover art for "On The Landing," “The Glatstein Chronicles” and “In the Land of the Postscript”
Posted inCulture

SFPL branch offers program highlighting works by Yiddish authors, Elana Dykewomon

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

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