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Book Review: A Memorial to Lucette Lagnado’s Two Remarkable Memoirs

To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Egypt, Jewish, Lucette Lagnado, The Arrogant Years, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, Bulgarian Rhapsody, Ivan Nitchev, Jeruzalem, Jewish, Paul Dervis, Paz brothers

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.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: documentary, Jewish, Josh Aronson, Orchestra of Exiles

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Claude Lanzmann, Culture Vulture, documentary, french, Jewish, memoir, Shoah, The Patagonian Hare

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater, World Books Tagged: Guy Ben-Aharon, Israel, Isreali Stage, Jewish, Savyon Liebrecht, translation

Fuse 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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: African-American, Hartford Stage, Jewish, Matthew Lopez, The Civil War, The Whipping Man

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: fiction, Jewish, Martin Fletcher, Roberta Silman, The List

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.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Beating Time, Boston Jewish Film Festival, documentary, Fracture, Jewish, Kaddish for a Friend, Neighbors Near and Far, Prize4Life

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

By: Etta King Filed Under: Music Tagged: Boston Jewish Music Festival and the New Center for Arts and Culture, Galeet Dardashti, Jewish, Music, Persian

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Holocaust, Jewish, Nazi, Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies

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