Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Culture Raphael Lemkin and Samantha Power’s Problem From Hell
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin Edited by Donna-Lee Frieze Yale University Press, 328 pages, $35 Ten years ago, Samantha Power won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem From Hell,” a history of American inaction in the face of genocide. As she awaits Senate confirmation to be the country’s next ambassador to…
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Culture Trader Joe’s Treasure
About a year and a half ago, Portland, Ore.-based artist Harrell Fletcher went to his local Trader Joe’s to do some shopping. By the time he went home, it was with far more than a few bags of groceries. Sitting in front of the market and surrounded by some of his drawings was Michael Patterson-Carver,…
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Israel News Bikel’s Butcher, Sharp as Ever
Among the boldface names slated to appear at the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s June 17 annual gala at New York’s Town Hall, there is one that doesn’t immediately bring to mind thoughts of the Yiddish stage: “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. But as devoted readers of The Shmooze will know, the newsman is not just…
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News Remembering the ‘Thunder Years’
Author Stephanie Klein spent five of her teenage summers at what she bluntly calls “Fat Camp.” In her new memoir, “Moose” (HarperCollins), a childhood nickname, Klein compresses those summers into a single, lightly fictionalized one. Though she changed a few identifying details, she assures the reader early on that she’s no James Frey. “Sadly enough,”…
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News As Controversy Over French Author Simmers, Museum Plans To Enter Fray
With a mix of excitement and trepidation, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage announced this week that it is planning to stage an exhibition devoted to the writer Irène Némirovsky in the fall. The exhibition, the first museum show ever devoted to the recently rediscovered French author, is in many regards a coup for the…
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Culture Yid Vid: ‘Jewno’
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Life Getting Around
Not only does work done by our latest hire, editorial assistant Marissa Brostoff, now regularly grace the pages of the Forward, but it can be found as today’s lead offering on Nextbook.org In her piece, Brostoff chats with Peter Zheutlin, author of the newly-released “Around the World on Two Wheels.” The book tells the story…
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Culture Protecting the Graveless
This past fall, despite objections from both the White House and some in the organized Jewish world, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to allow a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide to go before the House of Representatives. When the move led to mass protests in Turkey and threats from Ankara to disrupt the American…
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