More in ‘1960s’

Continuing the 40th-anniversary-of-Woodstock festivities, director Ang Lee has a new movie coming out, Taking Woodstock. It’s based on a memoir by Elliot Tiber, whose family owned an old-school Jewish bungalow colony in Bethel, New York, the Catskills town where the music festival took place. (No, Virginia, it wasn’t actually held in Woodstock.) In this telling, ...

Much has been written about the music, literature, art, and film—from Bob Dylan’s rambling, raspy ballads to Philip Roth’s neurotic, confessional novels—that both fueled and reflected cultural change in the 1960s.
In Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America, Richard Zoglin, a reporter for Time magazine, argues that a generation of comics ...

It is a testament to the pervasiveness of 1960s youth culture that even people as completely square as my parents got a little hip to it.
Here were a couple of good Jewish kids who met during college in Boston, got married at 21, and started raising a family not long after that in suburban Chicago. ...

Movie poster for Cast a Giant Shadow
In 1964 Melville Shavelson set out to make a Hollywood epic about an American military man who helped establish the state of Israel. Though Cast a Giant Shadow had a generous budget, the full cooperation of the Israeli government, and a star-studded cast including Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank ...