Felder’s ‘Before Fiddler’ Highlights Music of Sholem Aleichem Era
Hershey Felder continues to stream one-man shows from his current residence in Florence, Italy. Among his many portrayals of famous composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikowsky and Debussy, he also featured three great Jewish...
A Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse
My Best Enemy (Mein Bester Feind), a 2011 film now streaming on paid Amazon Prime, opens in Vienna in 1938, just before Hitler is about to move his army into Austria. The film focuses on...
What a Jewish teacher learns in United Arab Emirates
A Jewish American working in the United Arab Emirates fears hostility but finds humanity in this debut memoir.
Fleeing divorce and midlife crisis, journalist Eden left Ohio in 2008 to take a teaching job at the...
Sophia Loren plays elderly Holocaust survivor in ‘The Life Ahead’
Sofia Villani Scicolone first appeared into the movie called Quo Vadis in 1951 when she was only 15 years old. She was renamed “Sophia Loren” by her husband Carlo Ponti who also directed the film. Loren...
When You Kill Children, You Kill Infinite Possibilities
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories, a 2020 documentary streaming on Netflix, is narrated by Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren who revisits Anne Frank’s life and the possibility of what she could have been; reading passages of her...
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America, by...
For Steven Ross, an acclaimed American historian of labour and the film industry whose parents both survived the Holocaust, this remarkable and meticulously researched book is personal. Initially seeking to understand Jewish passivity during...
‘Tehran’ cast, creators on feedback from fans: ‘We’re too soft on regime’
The cast and creators of “Tehran,” the hit Israeli series streaming on Apple TV+, explained during a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday how the show was insistent on respecting Iranian culture and the kind...
Movie Review: ‘Kastner and the Little Tuesday’
Kästner and the Little Tuesday, a 2016 movie originally titled in German as Kästner und der Kleine Dienstag is now streaming, with English subtitles, on Amazon Prime.
It’s Germany 1931, the children’s novel Emil and the Detectives is being...
The magic of Kadya Molodwsky’s children’s poetry – now in English
A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless Stretch of Land” makes some of the most...
Love and War Divide Two Boyhood Best Friends
Secrets of War (Oorlogsgeheimen) is a 2014 film set in the summer of 1943 in Southern Limburg, a Dutch village. The area is occupied by the Germans to mixed reactions from its residents.
In the opening scene,...