Wednesday, April 5, 2017 in Manhattan.
The newest incarnation of Fiddler on the Roof, despite being the fifth Broadway revival to date, manages to do something fresh with its classic material,. . .
Jay Winik’s 1944 presents itself as an admiring biography of a segment of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s career, but also contains a forceful indictment of his. . .
In 1951, Joseph Buloff—one of the Yiddish theater’s leading actors—starred in a Yiddish version of Arthur Miller’s classic play, which he himself had translated. This. . .
More insidious than Wagner’s hateful ideas are his passions, which reside in his music and stir answering passions in others.
Wagner’s totalizing anti-Judaism is still alive. It just has a new face, fully revealed in this month’s attacks in Paris.
By persecuting the “degenerate” art of Jewish musicians and composers, Hitler sought to enshrine the supremacy of Austro-German musical culture. Instead, he destroyed it.. . .
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