Allen Ellenzweig

Allen Ellenzweig is an arts critic. His book George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye was just published by Oxford University Press.

Antisemitism, Now in Vogue
A scandal surrounding the fashion photographer Cecil Beaton speaks to the coded prejudices of 1930s America
byAllen Ellenzweig
Teaching I.B. Singer’s Old Jews and Their Moral Tales at a Catholic College
Are the lessons and pleasures of the Yiddish master’s ‘The Son From America’ lost on a new generation?
byAllen Ellenzweig
Don’t Ask, Don’t Ask
Artists, particularly in theater, are still plagued by the slur “Gay Commie Jew.” But how did it come about?
byAllen Ellenzweig
Melancholy Gay Arabia
Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa confronts the challenges of gay life in the Mideast in An Arab Melancholia
byAllen Ellenzweig
Auntie Semitism at the Met
Gertrude Stein’s ties to Nazis, revisited at the museum, shouldn’t eclipse her nurturing of young artists
byAllen Ellenzweig
Likeness of a Jew
A dispute between novelist Alan Hollinghurst and author Daniel Mendelsohn revives a history of sensitivity to British stereotypes about Jews
byAllen Ellenzweig