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Surf Music + Klezmer = This Groundbreaking Yiddish Fiddler

Michael Alpert is not interested in nostalgia. An architect of the what some like to call the klezmer revival, his influences come directly from pre-World War II Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, but also from the surf music and mariachi he grew up listening to in California. Now that he’s being presented with the National Endowment for […]

By Leah Falk

A Sculptural Tribute to Israel’s Tragic Summer

With his arresting sculptural installation “Pillar of Ash,” NYC-based Israeli artist Romy Achituv responds to two harrowing attacks by Jewish extremists in Israel this summer: the arson of the Palestinian Dawabshe family home, resulting in the deaths of a toddler and his two young parents, and the stabbing of 16-year-old Shira Banki at Jerusalem’s […]

Vladimir Nabokov’s Spirited Jewish Wife

They say behind every great man is a great woman. In the case of the legendary Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, that great woman must have been mighty busy, acting as the writer’s editor, translator, assistant, agent, archivist, researcher, and stenographer. Oh, and Jewish wife. Nabokov first met Vera Slonim at an émigré charity ball in […]