Sam Bromer
By Sam Bromer
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The Schmooze Movie News: The Holocaust Movie Stanley Kubrick Never Made, Roman Polanski Scoffs At #MeToo
In an egregious act of censorship that can only be described as Orwellian, the Cannes Film Festival banned selfies on its red carpet this year. Can someone check the Geneva Conventions? This can’t be legal. Anyway, from Roman Polanski’s latest attempt to minimize his egregious sexual misconduct, to Mila Kunis’s upcoming spy flick, to a…
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The Schmooze Movie News: ‘Disobedience’ Disappoints, Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Leonard Bernstein
Readers: You may have assumed that writing about culture for the Forward has earned me vast, uncountable riches. Your assumption is wrong. To date, I’ve probably made enough money at the Forward to plant, uh, half a tree in Israel. So why work here? The answer is simple: I have a passion for crafting concise,…
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Culture A Rock Opera About The Holocaust? Yes, Really.
Jeremy Schonfeld didn’t exactly intend to create a multimedia rock opera about the Shoah and the emotional trauma it inflicted across generations. All he wanted to do was write an album in honor of his father, Gustav Schonfeld, a survivor of Auschwitz who passed away in 2011. Yet, according to Schonfeld, the result of this…
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The Schmooze Movie News: Rachel Weisz On ‘Disobedience’, Director Olivier Assayas’s Jewish Roots
It’s a well-known saying that the mark of a truly great person is having a story about encountering the British actor Bill Nighy. Okay, maybe not, but both Rachel Weisz and I have one such story, so the saying can’t be far behind. Here’s Weisz’s, according to Jenny Singer’s report on a recent talk she…
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Culture Want to Understand Putin’s Russia? Read “Dressed Up For A Riot.”
In response to the scandal surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election, American media outlets have presented the Kremlin as a breeding ground for complex schemes and ruthless espionage, and have cast Vladimir Putin as an eccentric mastermind. These commentators would do well to read Michael Idov’s “Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow,” a…
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Culture Remember That Time Barbra Streisand Chatted With Golda Meir?
Despite recent appearances in duds like “Meet the Fockers” and “Guilt Trip,” Barbra Streisand, who turned 76 on April 24, is a living, breathing legend. Her awards number greater than the population of some small European nations: She’s one of a handful of performers who has won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an…
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Culture How The 1939 World’s Fair Sold America On Zionism
At the tail end of the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II, the 1939 New York World’s Fair offered weary, anxious Americans an escape from the dismal present into an ecstatic future. Over the fair’s six-month span, 44 million people descended on a former ash dump in Flushing, Queens, to experience…
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Culture Serena Dykman on ‘Nana’ and the State of Holocaust Education
Serena Dykman grew up hearing stories of the Holocaust: Her grandparents were survivors, and her maternal grandmother, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, was a renowned Holocaust educator, who spoke about her experiences around the world. Years after Maryla’s death, when Serena witnessed the aftermath of anti-Semitic terror attacks in Brussels and Paris, she decided it was time to…
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