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    Essay

    Prej­u­dice Porn: Images of Jews in Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940

    Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about social con­cern and left pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can art. He is the author of a recent­ly pub­lished book on the top­ic…
    Matthew Baigell
    June 30, 2015
    Essay

    Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art

    Matthew Baigell is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus in the Depart­ment of Art His­to­ry at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of numer­ous books, includ­ing Amer­i­can Artists,…
    Matthew Baigell
    June 29, 2015
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    Sus­pi­cious Minds: How Cul­ture Shapes Madness
    Ian and Jeff Gold
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    Fic­tion
    The Mural­ist: A Novel
    B.A. Shapiro
    Cover of The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
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    The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Trea­sures Stolen by the Nazis
    Simon Good­man
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    Made­line Kahn: Being the Music: A Life
    William V. Madison
    Cover of Blood, Sweat & My Rock 'n Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
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    Blood, Sweat & My Rock ​‘n Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
    Steve Katz
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    You Fas­ci­nate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman
    Andy Propst
    Essay

    Israeli Writ­ers Embrac­ing English

    by Ranen Omer-Sher­manBooks Dis­cussed in This EssayThe Best Place on Earth: Sto­ries by Ayelet TsabariTalk­ing to the Ene­my by Avn­er MandelmanThe Peo­ple of For­ev­er Are…
    Ranen Omer-Sher­man
    May 19, 2015
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    Fic­tion
    Death of a Diva: From Berlin to Broadway
    Brigitte Gold­stein
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    Days of Ticho: Empire, Man­date, Med­i­cine, and Art in the Holy Land
    David Rei­fler
    Essay

    Pho­tograph­ing a Por­trait of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Community

    Ear­li­er this week, Ali­na Bli­u­mis wrote about the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish iden­ti­ty cri­sis and a pho­tog­ra­phy series she shot, along with her part­ner and…
    Ali­na Bliumis
    May 13, 2015
    Essay

    Address­ing the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Cri­sis, Cam­era in Hand

    Ali­na Bli­u­mis received her BFA from the School of Visu­al Art in 1999 and a diplo­ma from the Advanced Course in Visu­al Arts in Fon­dazione Anto­nio Rat­ti, Como, Italy…
    Ali­na Bliumis
    May 11, 2015
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    Shock­ing Paris: Sou­tine, Cha­gall and the Out­siders of Montparnasse
    Stan­ley Meisler
    Essay

    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ers and Israel

    Ear­li­er this week, Michael C. Kotzin wrote a two-part series on rad­i­cal Islamism’s war against the Jews. You can find part one here and part two here. He has been…
    Michael C. Kotzin
    May 8, 2015
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    Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940
    Matthew Baigell
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