Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor.
Benjamin Ivry
By Benjamin Ivry
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Culture Remembering the Jewish composer who wrote what might just be the most familiar theme song ever
Monty Norman composed the theme to the James Bond films — and a whole lot more
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Culture The Jewish musicals that Oscar Hammerstein never got to do
The lyricist and playwright considered writing about dybbuks but spent more time immortalizing the life of a singing nun
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Culture A giant of acting forever changed by the German occupation of his homeland
Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of 'The Conformist,' has died at 91
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Culture Admired by Bellow, indebted to Faulkner, a giant of Jewish literature dies at 85
A.B. Yehoshua was as gifted as he was uncompromising and undiplomatic
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Culture How Gene Wilder became such a unique Jewish comedian
Gene Wilder had an atypical approach to Jewish humor
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Culture Was Judy Garland too Jewish for show business?
Though she was born Episcopalian, the singer's associations with Jewish artists and collaborators is the stuff of legend
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Culture How a once-neglected Slovenian writer survived the Nazis camps to live to 108
Boris Pahor was the author of ‘Necropolis,’ which fictionalized his experiences in WWII
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Culture Why it was dangerous in Nazi Germany to be both a Jewish woman and a composer
A new book lays out how Hitler's thugs targeted artists such as Camille Frydan and Josefine Auspitz-Winter
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