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Franz Kafka // Photo Courtesy of Schocken Books
February 16, 2023, 11:24 am
What’s Jewish About…Franz Kafka?
How an essential new translation of Kafka’s ‘Diaries’ gives us insight into the mind of one of the 20th century’s most visionary writers.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Potatoes pancakes latkes, flapjacks, hash brown or potato vada on brown wooden table. Copy space for text.
December 15, 2022, 10:20 am
What’s Jewish About…Latkes?
How latkes became a Chanukah tradition
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Statue of David Sassoon, 1865, by Thomas Woolner, in the David Sassoon Library, Mumbai // Photo Credit: Helen Jackson
November 16, 2022, 4:16 pm
What’s Jewish About…the Gilded Age and the Sassoon Dynasty?
One of the Richest Families in the World?
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Polly Adler was an internationally notorious madam in Jazz Age Manhattan, whose opulent brothels served as secret salons where celebrities, politicians, gangsters, businessmen, athletes and entertainers mingled // Photo Credit: The Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera.
October 13, 2022, 12:16 pm
What’s Jewish About…The Jazz Age?
In this month’s column, Pulitzer Prize-winning, historian author Debby Applegate shares a fascinating perspective on Polly Adler in her book, “Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.”
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
The OY/YO sculpture by artist Deborah Kass is part of Scenes from the Collection, the Jewish Museum’s exhibition of over 450 works from antiquities to contemporary art. // Credit: Kris Graves
September 15, 2022, 3:16 pm
What’s Jewish About …The Art World?
The Jewish Museum in New York City was founded in 1904 in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and has been housed in the landmark Warburg Mansion on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street since 1947.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Ann Fristoe Stewart, director and curator of The Leiber Collection Museum and Sculpture Garden // Photo Credit: Gordon Munro
August 11, 2022, 12:54 pm
What’s Jewish About … Handbags?
Following World War II, the Budapest-born entrepreneur Judith Leiber came to America and took the fashion accessory industry by storm.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Marilyn Bagel married a man named Bagel and said it was only a matter of time before she wrote a book about her namesake.
July 13, 2022, 4:10 pm
What’s Jewish About … Bagels?
Marilyn Bagel is the author of multiple editions of “The Bagel Bible: For Bagel Lovers, the Complete Guide to Great Noshing" and one of the leading authorities on the history of the beloved bagel.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Jonathan Adler // Photo courtesy of Jonathan Adler
May 11, 2022, 2:10 pm
What’s Jewish About … Designer Jonathan Adler?
Jonathan Adler is an internationally renowned potter, designer and author. Known for his vibrant, dynamic interiors, he also lives by his motto: “If your heirs won’t fight over it, we won’t make it.”
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
Theora Design, a family business founded in Tel Aviv in 1965, has become a world leader in the design of toys, games and novelties.
April 20, 2022, 2:01 pm
What’s Jewish About …Toy World Sensations ‘Guess Who?’ and ‘Pop It’?
In 1965, Tel Aviv couple Theo and Ora Coster, of blessed memory, founded Theora Design, a toy business that has grown into one of the world’s leaders in games and novelties.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
DT6RD9 SINKING SCENE TITANIC directed by James Cameron [Twentieth Century Fox Pictures]
March 23, 2022, 11:52 am
What’s Jewish About … The Titanic?
There were 69 known Jewish passengers aboard the doomed ship, 39 of whom perished — including Isidor and Ida Straus.
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
February 24, 2022, 5:33 pm
What’s Jewish About … Hit Sitcoms ‘Friends’ and ‘Grace and Frankie’?
You may know Marta Fran Kauffman as the co-creator of the hit sitcoms “Friends” and “Grace and Frankie," but did you know what's Jewish about her?
By Robyn Spizman Gerson
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