Blue Box
Avishai Cohen’s evocative 'Silence'
Trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen’s new album, Into the Silence (ECM), is dedicated to the memory of his father, who...
Appelfeld writes for young readers
Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, at the age of...
‘Imagine That’ sounds sublime
Drummer Daniel Freedman follows up his acclaimed 2012 album, Bamako by Bus, with Imagine That (Anzic Records), a vibrant collection...
Israel’s great poet, Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Farrar, Straus and...
Chicago’s legendary black newspaper
In 1991, Jewish journalist Ethan Michaeli was hired by The Chicago Defender, the newspaper of the Windy City’s black community....
Germany’s silence after the Shoah
In Germany, more than a dozen years after the end of World War II, the citizenry remained ignorant of the...
Sam Sadigursky takes up the ‘stick’
Sam Sadigursky’s father, a classically trained clarinetist and accordionist from the former Soviet Union, dreamed of someday playing jazz clarinet....
Zusha sings on Hasidic Soul tip
The first full-length album by Zusha, a group in the Hasidic Soul genre, is titled Kavana. As the group’s publicity...
Poet Judith Viorst looks at marriage
Celebrated author Judith Viorst has published her 12th book of poetry, Wait for Me: The Irritations and Consolations of a...
Precocious poet is teacher’s pet
Yoav (Avi Shnaidman), a five-year-old poet of elliptical romantic verses, entrances Nira (Sarit Larry), the titular character in The Kindergarten...
