Stage & Screen

Stage & Screen

Literature & Reviews | Poetry | Yiddishkeit | Pop Culture

Our First, and Only, Book Trailer Review

with Sephora Markson Hartz and Jesse Tisch

Is the book trailer for Ben Marcus's new novel innovative? Or just plain weird?

Jung Breaks Bad

David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is less than daring.

By Sephora Markson Hartz

The Jewish Shakespeare

The tale of my great-grandfather, playwright
Jacob Gordin.

By Beth Kaplan

Klezmetrics

Transposing Jewish music

into the key of poetry.

By Richard Chess

Roots Lost and Found

Russian-Jewish cultural identity on the silver screen.
By Olga Gershenson

Changing Cultural Landscapes 
in Russian & Israeli Cinema

The evolving narrative in Israeli and Russian films of the 
Russian immigrant experience.
By Olga Gershenson

Yiddish Theater in Europe

The short-lived yet influential movement.

By Nahma Sandrow

Relatively Speaking, or,

Three plays by three icons of Jewish comedy.

By Sephora Markson Hartz

Dario Moreno and Sephardic Cosmopolitanism

The life and legacy of Turkish singing legend Dario Moreno, the Mediterranean's "Frank Sinatra."

By Pamela Dorn Sezgin

Lessons From the Prophets

An interview with Tony Kushner.

By Jesse Tisch

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