David Levesley
By David Levesley
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Culture The Secret Jewish History of Richard Pryor
● Becoming Richard Pryor By Scott Saul Harper, 608 Pages, $27.99 Richard Pryor’s personal history has already been relentlessly mined by numerous biographies as well as in the comedian’s stand-up acts and memoir. Still, Scott Saul’s new biography “Becoming Richard Pryor” adds a lot of new information. In his author’s note, Saul takes particular pride…
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Culture Henry Geldzahler Gets Another 15 Minutes of Fame
Tucked away in a corner of Chelsea is some of the most important art ever to be shown in New York. Or, at least, it was once upon a time. The show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery may not seem any more significant than the collections on view in Chelsea’s other galleries, but all the…
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Culture Of Steven Spielberg, the Shvitz, Langston Hughes and 11 Other Things About Jewish Ohio
1) 148,680 Jews live in Ohio, representing 1.3% of the state’s population. 2) Ohio is the state with the eighth largest Jewish population — more than Texas, less than Maryland. 3) The first two Jewish families to reside in the capital city of Columbus were the Nusbaums and the Gundersheimers, both from the Bavarian village…
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Culture Does ‘Ida’ Misrepresent Poland’s Treatment of Jews?
Every year since 1963, Poland has submitted a movie for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nine of the country’s past submissions have been shortlisted for the prize, and 2015 marks the 10th: “Ida,” a black-and-white film about a Polish nun (Agata Trzebuchowska) who discovers she is Jewish and that her parents were…
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