The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition

By Tamar SchwartzJune 11, 2020June 11, 2020 Arts, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition by Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet website on June 10, 2020.
A photograph of w:The Dybbuk’s Hebrew Premiere: w:Habima Theatre (then operating in Sekretaryova Theater, Nizhny Kislovskaya 6, close to w:Bolshoy Kislovsky Lane, w:Moscow), 31 January 1922. On the stage: w:Hanna Rovina as Leah, the possessed bride; Nahum Zemach as the Tzaddik. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Yiddish Illustrations: “From Chagall to Diego Rivera”

By Tamar SchwartzJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Arts, Literature

Click Here to Read: Yiddish Illustrations: “From Chagall to Diego Rivera” A Personal Top Ten by David Mazower on the Yiddish Book Center website.

Shavuot

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020.
Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Kafka, Kafka Everywhere

By Tamar SchwartzMay 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Arts, Politics

Click Here to Read: Kafka, Kafka Everywhere: Surveillance capitalism, acts of resistance, and the censorship of art—all on the rise by Bailey Trela on the Tablet website on May 15, 2020.
Franz Kafka. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Musical Ears

By Tamar SchwartzMay 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Arts, Science

Click Here to Read: Musical Ears by Oliver Sacks on the London Review of Books website Volume 5 #8 May 4, 1984. Image: Maria Popova. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

May 4, 1984.

Circles and Squares by Caroline Maclean

By Tamar SchwartzMay 12, 2020May 12, 2020 Arts

Click Here to Read: Circles and Squares by Caroline Maclean, review: when the avant-garde descended on north London: Piet Mondrian, Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth were among the artists who, for a brief moment, made Hampstead their home By Hettie Judah on the Inews website on May 7, 2020.
Hampstead, London. Image: XeresNelro Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe: Museums grapple with how to show visual art not isolated from greater sociohistorical processes by Matt Alexander Hanson on May 4, 2020.
Warsaw, parade in front of Adolf Hitler Image: Mensing. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.