To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.
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Fuse Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — A Powerful “Bulgarian Rhapsody”
The history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.
Fuse Film Review: An Awkward But Important “Orchestra of Exiles”
With his biopic “Orchestra of Exiles,” director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.
Book Feature: A Conversation with Claude Lanzmann about his memoir, “The Patagonian Hare”
Claude Lanzmann is a great raconteur who’s honed his narrative skills as a veteran journalist. His memoir is exuberant and provocative at its best; bombastic and superficial at its worst.
Stage Interview: Israeli Stage and “Apples From The Desert”
Israeli Stage’s readings are consistently the best attended in the Boston area, thus demonstrating that there is a great appetite for Israeli culture beyond folk dance and hummus.
Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”
An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.
Book Review: An Outstanding “List”
Although he has set himself an ambitious task with all that is happening in “The List,” Martin Fletcher has complete command of this material and has created a complex novel that is also a good thriller.
Movie Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — Neighbors Near and Far
Congratulations to the Boston Jewish Film Festival are certainly due to its longevity and general quality.
Music Feature: Fervent Prayer — Galeet Dardashti crafts new rituals from the old
Galeet Dardashti is a trailblazing musician: she is the first woman in her celebrated family to perform Persian Jewish music
Book Commentary: The Emperor of Lies = The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Should we fictionalize the Holocaust? This is not only a literary question, but a moral one as well, issues raised by the publication of the translation of “The Emperor of Lies,” a novel about the ways in which the Jews in the Lodz ghetto struggled to survive the Nazis.