Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at zax@forward.com or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Art Jewish Rebels Once Dreamed Of Peace On Earth. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Despite its origins in the work of the Jewish Karl Marx, and its early Soviet Jewish advocates, communism never served the Jewish people particularly well. Less than two decades after the Russian Revolution, Josef Stalin’s Great Purge made a particular — if unofficial — target of Jews. One decade after the 1938 end of the…
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Culture Why George Saunders Loves Isaac Babel And Nadezhda Mandelstam
George Saunders has been credited with helping reinvent American fiction: In 2017, Zadie Smith wrote that “Within the universe of American writing, there really is a continent called GeorgeSaunders-Land, where the people speak funny, and the social contract has either broken down or been bent out of all recognition.” Saunders has yet to be deemed…
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Culture If You Live In New York, Here’s The One Poem You Should Read Today
The weather in New York City is frightful! So far today it has windy-rained, rain-snowed, thunder-snowed, and just plain old snowed. It is dark and dreary and the floor of the subway cars is releasing a certain warm-wet scent, which is comforting in a disturbing kind of way. If you have spoken to another person…
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Culture Bernstein Book Award Finalists Include Masha Gessen, Joshua Green
The finalists for this year’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, awarded annually by the New York Public Library, include Masha Gessen, Jessica Bruder and Joshua Green. The award, established in 1988, comes with a prize of $15,000. This year’s winner will be announced on May 21. Masha Gessen’s “The Future is History:…
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Culture Olivier Award Nominees: ‘Hamilton’ Breaks Records, ‘Angels In America’ Makes Waves
The London production of “Hamilton” has earned 13 nominations for the Olivier Awards, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the Tony Awards, setting a new record. The previous record number of nominations was shared by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” (2017) and “Hairspray” (2008), each of which garnered 11 nominations. Close on the heels of…
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Culture Paula Vogel, Avram Finkelstein Finalists For Lambda Literary Awards
Finalists for the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards, announced today, include Paula Vogel, Annalee Newitz, Avram Finkelstein and Bill Goldstein. The Awards, which recognize achievement in LGBTQ literature, honor works published in the previous year in a variety of genres, from mystery novels to academic texts. This year’s Awards will be presented on June 4. Vogel…
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Culture Russ Solomon, Founder Of Tower Records, Dies At 92
Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, passed away on March 4 at the age of 92. As The Sacramento Bee reports, Solomon died in between glasses of whisky: While watching the Oscars, his son Michael Solomon told the Bee, Solomon asked his wife to replenish his glass. According to the Bee, she returned with…
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Film & TV The Oscars Shaped My Feelings About Womanhood. Now What?
In 2016, my roommate and I became friends over movies: Trapped in our top-floor apartment by a weekend blizzard, we watched “The Princess Diaries” and “Cinderella,” two ambitious young women briefly surrendering to the fantasy of being princesses in a tower. The snow melted, and we went back to work, but the bond was sealed….
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