Out and About: Pearl Buck’s Jewish Novel; Robert Moses, the Musical
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Get ready for the Robert Moses musical.
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Find out what the New York Times best sellers were the week you were born (or any week, really).
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HEEB talks to Eve Annenberg, whose film “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish” (discussed in the Forward here) will screen on January 16 at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
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New research shows that Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), the namesake of the Bode Museum in Berlin, was — get this — an anti-Semite.
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Film critic Armond White and “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky butt heads at the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner.
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“Peony,” a 1948 novel by Pearl Buck, tells the story of the Kaifeng Jews.
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Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman has won the Jewish Book of the Year Award from the Jewish Book Council for “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry.”
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Take a look at the libraries of the rich and famous.
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Book critic and Times Literary Supplement editor John Gross has died.
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