The entire toy industry in America was largely Jewish, from the company founders and executives to the designers and factory workers, from the wholesale distributors and the army of salesmen, to the retail outlets and the large department stores that sold them.
For Cate Thurston, the chief curator at the Skirball, the exhibit gives the museum a chance to “explore this sort of underserved story” about the Jewish relationship and participation and crafting the look of punk
“We Were Made for These Times” is as inventive and joyous an album as I’ve heard in a long time. And the most proudly Jewish.
As the publisher and co-founder of Random House, Bennett Cerf was one of the most important figures in 20th-century culture and literature.
Neil Sedaka was born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mac and Eleanor Sedaka. His father was Sephardic and his mother Ashkenazi; Sedaka was a transliteration of the Hebrew “tzedakah.”
The desire to set things right animates “Fagin the Thief.”
He’s playing a McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica Jan. 31, with Thee Holy Brothers — Willie Aron and Marvin Etzioni — opening.
Thankfully, James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” manages to avoid most of the problems that dog biopics.
“The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” is a fascinating volume; a poet’s life in full.
When the co-founder and CEO of Izzy was asked what he’d like the Israel-centric streaming platform to become, he answered, without missing a beat, “the Netflix of Israel.”