PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Film & TV Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring
‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing
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Film & TV The song, and the Holocaust survivor, behind the year’s most stunning moment in film
How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’
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Film & TV ‘Schindler’s List’ is darker — and braver — than you may remember
The film, Schindler’s List, marking its 30th anniversary, has been unjustly dismissed by scholars
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Film & TV Leonard Bernstein was a big deal. Why does ‘Maestro’ make him so small?
Four critics discuss what Bradley Cooper’s biopic leaves out
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Film & TV Bernstein, Oppenheimer and Barbie lead off a Jew-ish list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees
The awards show is big on Jewish titans who shaped the world, in music, plastic and nuclear physics
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Film & TV Why Ryan O’Neal could make you laugh in (not at) his underwear
The late actor’s style was divisive, but often delivered exactly what was needed
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Film & TV ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece follows the life of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss
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Culture Every American Hanukkah special, movie and TV episode worth knowing about
Adam Sandler, Hallmark and Disney deep cuts for your viewing pleasure
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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