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Covers of "The House of Fragile Things" by James McAuley and "The Vanished Collection" by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Posted inBooks

New books: Two portraits of French Jewish art collectors and their wartime travails

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 14, 2022
Maya Chupkov started a podcast on stuttering to bring social awareness and "justice to those who are constantly misunderstood by society."
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: This podcast host is a ‘Proud Stutterer’

by Liz Harris January 11, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan in "Ray Donovan: The Movie." (Photo/Showtime)
Posted inTV & Film

Ray Donovan, the Irish fixer with a Jewish soul, gets his movie

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz January 11, 2022
The Alon Near Group (from left): Hillel Salem, Guy Moskovich, Alon Near, Asaf Even Tzur and Alon Benjamini
jazz,  music,  musician
Posted inCulture

From Tel Aviv by way of NYC, jazz quintet reunites for SF run at Black Cat

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert January 10, 2022January 18, 2022
David Alvarez as Bernardo in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" remake. (Photo/JTA-Niko Tavernise-Twentieth Century Fox)
Posted inTV & Film

Golden Globes 2022: Andrew Garfield, and Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ win big

by JTA January 10, 2022
Comedian Bob Saget performs at the Improv Comedy Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 24, 2006. (Photo/JTA-Ralph Notaro-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Bob Saget, comedian and actor who played Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ dies at 65

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 10, 2022
Footage from the Lumière brothers, capturing a train pulling into Jaffa station in 1896, is accessible on the Israel Film Archive website.
Posted inHistory

The Israel Film Archive collects more than a century of Israeli historical footage online. Here are the highlights.

by Karen Chernick and JTA January 5, 2022
Andrew Garfield in "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Drake nixes Grammys; Jon Stewart talks Harry Potter; Larry David is bald; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 4, 2022January 6, 2022
The company of "The Band's Visit" North American tour. (Photo/Matthew Murphy)
Posted inCultured

‘Band’s Visit,’ Fran Lebowitz and Nissim Black will go on — omicron permitting

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten January 3, 2022January 7, 2022

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