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February Short Fuses — Materia Critica

February 3, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Book Review: The Books of András Koerner — Acts of Wondrous Remembrance

December 7, 2020
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Writer András Koerner has dedicated himself, lovingly and brilliantly, to assiduously reconstruct the lives of ordinary Jews in Hungary before the Shoah.

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Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”

May 30, 2015
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.

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Fuse Film Reviews: At Jewishfilm.2015 — History’s Revelations

May 9, 2015
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The 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival approaches its end with two compelling cinematic looks at Jewish history.

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TV Review: Simon Schama Tells His “Story of the Jews”

March 29, 2014
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Simon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.

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Short Fuse: Tarantino’s Nazi-killing Cotton Candy

August 28, 2009
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By Harvey Blume Let me tell you why I heartily dislike and contemn Quentin Tarantino’s “The Inglorious Basterds.”

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