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A Big Jewish Pianist With Unremarkable Hands
Jonathan Biss stops by Carnegie Hall on his way to recording the full cycle of 32 Beethoven sonatas
A Motley Crew, Including Said and Wieseltier, Unite To Find Chopin’s Great Lost Interpreter
The quest to rediscover the mysterious pianist Ignace Tiegerman led through Cairo, Italy, and the ghost of Bruno Schulz
Singing Along with Yossi Green
The composer played a concert for developmentally disabled Orthodox men
Our Yiddishe Mozart
Michael Willens, the grandson of Yiddish theater greats, conducts the Kölner Akademie in piano concertos
Big Band Theory
Grammy-winning jazz pianist Alon Yavnai enlists the help of a robust ensemble to invoke Latin, African, and Middle Eastern rhythms on a new album
Fyvush Finkel: A Charming Conversation With a Longtime Serious Mensch
As the 91-year-old Yiddish theater star embarks on a Purim cabaret show, we revisit his appearance on Vox Tablet
Pin the Crime on the Jew: Blood Libel and the Case of Mendel Beilis
Edmund Levin plumbs trial transcripts to examine how one of Russia’s biggest court cases fed on the myth of Jewish malice
As If You Needed It, Yet Another Reason To Be in Miami: The Delis
Evolving Jewish culture—and doctors’ orders—dealt a blow to South Florida’s delicatessens. But they’re making a comeback.
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