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Shaina Hammerman teaches her course on Jewish humor at USF (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inCulture

Comedy, the Holocaust and the Jews in USF’s ‘Funny Jews’ course

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 25, 2018April 25, 2018
Mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal by artist Kevin Ledo (Photo/Flickr-fredisonfire CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inCulture

A Montreal pilgrimage in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen

by Ben Harris April 24, 2018April 24, 2018
Johann Sebastian Bach — anti-Semite? Or simply a man of his time?
Posted inCulture

Was Bach anti-Jewish? This choir’s performances come with a debate

by Rob Gloster April 10, 2018
Itzhak Perlman enters the ballpark before playing the national anthem at a New York Mets game in 2016 (Photo/Courtesy Greenwich Entertainment)
Posted inCulture

‘Itzhak’ reveals genius and generosity of one of the great violin superstars

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier April 2, 2018April 3, 2018
The cast of "A Letter to Harvey Milk" in one of the play's musical numbers
Posted inCulture

Off-Broadway Harvey Milk musical puts gay Jewish pride onstage

Ted Merwin by Ted Merwin March 28, 2018April 2, 2018
Erna Salm in the 1940s at the piano at the family home in Flossmoor, near Chicago. (Photo/Courtesy Susan Salm)
Posted inCulture

Piano that survived Holocaust finds its forever home in the North Bay

by Rob Gloster March 16, 2018
The Vinifera Trio: Clarinetist Matthew Boyles, violinist Rachel Patrick and pianist Ian Scarfe
Posted inUncategorized, Music

Lunchtime concert will honor Hungarian musical influences

by J. Staff March 9, 2018March 12, 2018
Russian-American singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko on stage with the band (Photo/Roman Boldyrev, r-lerman.ca)
Posted inCulture

Silenced for years, songs of Soviet Jews heard again in all their ‘Yiddish Glory’

by Andrew Muchin February 20, 2018August 20, 2018
Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Bernstein at the Danbury State Fair, 1974 (Photo/David Gahr)
Posted inCulture

‘Bernstein at 100’ series closes out with violinist Vadim Gluzman

by Patricia Corrigan February 14, 2018February 20, 2018
Rabbi Benzaquen in the recording booth
Posted inCulture

This Sephardic rabbi helps revive Ladino songs as hip-hop

by Andrew Muchin February 12, 2018February 13, 2018

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