This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
By Ezra Glinter February 21, 2011
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Philologos wakes up and ponders his identity.
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Vladislav Davidzon evaluates the continuing influence of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.
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Ed Rampell goes to see “Mlle. God” by Nick Kazan, son of famed director Elia Kazan.
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Benjamin Ivry revisits the work of Italian Jewish painter Carlo Michelstaedter.
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Allan Nadler contests the notion that the tradition of Jewish secularism is quite as broad as David Biale thinks it is.
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Stuart Schoffman reads the “Journal of a UFO Investigator”
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And on the Forverts video channel, Itzik Gottesman discusses the 1938 Yiddish film “Yankl the Blacksmith” starring Moyshe Oysher:
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