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Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (579+ words) By Noah Hirsch-Rechter February 19, 2026 In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak's study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we "must consider him as "a Jew…...
This Israeli photographer's work is all about 'subverting masculinity"
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (1059+ words) By Stav Ziv September 20, 2025 "That was the seed," he told me over Zoom from his new home in New Jersey, where he recently moved with his husband. "Especially in a place like the military, where masculinity is such a huge…...
Celia Dropkin's "Desires" portrays the intimate life of a married couple
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In 1960's New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1017+ words) Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde'Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop By J. Hoberman Verso Books, 464 pages, $35 J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now:…...
Exhibit in Hungary displays remnants of 18th century wooden synagogue
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (178+ words) Tidbits is a bi-weekly feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. You'll also…...