Music

How many significant secular musical figures were the children of cantors? The journey from the synagogue to the concert hall and beyond is a story that America made famous,…
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“As Jewish practice, learning and knowledge diminish over time, my concern is that Holocaust memory is emerging as the dominant feature of Jewishness in America.” So said…
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In his 1931 short story, ‘Awakening,’ the writer Isaac Babel recalls one of the great cultural spectacles of his childhood in fin-de-siecle Odessa. ‘ the course of ten years or…
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