Category: Arts

The Sassoon Family Collection
By Categories: Arts, History

Click Here to read: The Sassoon Family Collection: A Sotheby’s curator describes an important sale of Judaica from ‘The Rothschilds of the East,’ who dominated the opium and cotton trades in the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan BY Shaul Swidler-Feller on the Tablet website on December 14, 2020.
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons w:Elias David Sassoon, w:Albert Abdallah David Sassoon & w:Sassoon David Sassoon. Image: Unknown photographer, mid-19th century.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew
By Categories: Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew: Novelist and critic Clive James and theater director Jonathan Miller, who died within days of each other this fall, shared breadth of passions and influential cultural positions. One was Jewish. The other was not—but he understood Jews better by Howard Jacobson on the Tablet Website on December 11, 2020. 

Jonathan Miller appearing on “After Dark” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.  Clive James and Nefertiti in the Flak      Tower.

Bob Dylan reveals he wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for Barbra Streisand in ‘lost’ 1971 interview
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Click Here to Read: Bob Dylan reveals he wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for Barbra Streisand in ‘lost’ 1971 interview: The folk icon also opens up about anti-Semitism and his Jewish identity by Daniel Arkin on the NBC News website on October 28, 2020.
Bob Dylan at Massey Hall, Toronto, April 18, 1980 Photo by Jean-Luc OurlinImage: Jean-Luc  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

This Year’s High Holidays Saw a Jewish World Shuttered
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Click Here to Read: This Year’s High Holidays Saw a Jewish World Shuttered. But for Some, It Only Just Opened. The pandemic forced Reform and Conservative synagogues to shift to livestreaming, but for some Jews, the move proved more of a blessing than a curse by
Marie-Rose Sheinerman on the Tablet website on October 16, 2020.
Image: Zachi Evenor Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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