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Harold Heft

Harold Heft, Director of Research and Innovation at North York General Hospital, has taught literature and film at the University of Western Ontario and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  • Walter Mosley.(Marcia Wilson)
    Walter Mosley.(Marcia Wilson)
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    America’s Blackest Jewish Writer

    Walter Mosley talks about his best-selling books, Jewish L.A., and identifying with Isaac Bashevis Singer

    byHarold Heft
  • Chaim Tannenbaum (left) and Rufus Wainwright, 2008.(Alexandria Weinberg)
    Chaim Tannenbaum (left) and Rufus Wainwright, 2008.(Alexandria Weinberg)
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    Unsung Hero

    For more than 40 years, folk music’s first family, the Wainwright-McGarrigle clan, has enjoyed the quiet support of musician—and philosophy professor—Chaim Tannenbaum

    byHarold Heft
  • Everett Sloane and Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.(Alexander Kahle/RKO Radio Pictures Inc./Photofest)
    Everett Sloane and Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.(Alexander Kahle/RKO Radio Pictures Inc./Photofest)
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    Citizen Bernstein

    Not only did Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane—which turns 70 this spring—change the way films were made, it broke new ground in how Hollywood portrayed Jews onscreen

    byHarold Heft
  • Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
    Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
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    Easy Call

    A case for Walter Mosley’s inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon

    byHarold Heft
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