Juliet Lapidos
By Juliet Lapidos
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Culture A Chat With Tamar Yellin, Winner of New Fiction Prize
Last week, the Jewish Book Council announced that Tamar Yellin, author of “The Genizah at the House of Shepher” (Toby Press, 2005), is the first recipient of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Rohr, who currently lives in Miami, spent his early years in Europe before moving to Bogotá, Colombia, where he made…
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Culture ‘Inheritance’
‘The rich are different than you and me,” F. Scott Fitzgerald reportedly told Ernest Hemingway. “Yes, they have more money,” Hemingway quipped. It’s a telling, if apocryphal, exchange that delineates two basic understandings of wealth — one aristocratic, the other democratic. In her first book of photographs, “Inheritance” (The Monacelli Press), Andrea Stern advances Hemingway’s…
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Culture The real Leni Riefenstahl
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl By Steven Bach Alfred A. Knopf, 400 pages, $30. Leni Riefenstahl’s 1987 autobiography begins with an epigraph borrowed from Albert Einstein: “So many things have been written about me, masses of insolent lies and inventions.” Apparently, the woman best known as “Hitler’s filmmaker” had no misgivings about…
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News The Right Fit: A Plethora of Haggadot
Arthur Miller once said that “Jews are very impatient with doing the same thing over and over again. It’s gotta be different!” The Jewish playwright’s observation seems particularly apt when applied to Passover — for, on the night that is different from all other nights, Jews fulfilling the vehigadeta mitzvah can choose from nearly 3,500…
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Culture Urban Portraits
Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Serge J-F. Levy worked as a photojournalist for 10 years, publishing his work in such magazines as Harper’s, ESPN and Life before turning to the art world. His first major solo exhibition in the United States, In Private, which is showing at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia,…
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