Art, Culture & Music

Living, reading, watching and listening Jewishly—that’s the crux of Moment’s Arts & Culture section. Here you can find book reviews, poetry, fiction, art and music. Don’t miss our fantastic interviews with artists and musicians.

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By Sarina Roffé People often ask me to define the term “Sephardic Jew.” The answer is complicated. No, it does

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By Konstanty Gebert. Over the past few years, a series of books has brought to the attention of English-speaking readers the morally challenging, historically important and often overlooked or forgotten story of the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II, and of the terrible fate of ...

Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Alan Cheuse   On November 14, Moment fiction editor Alan Cheuse spoke with fellow

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By Josh Tapper Bukharian Friday night dinner is an elaborate affair: Plates of carp doused with garlic sauce and cilantro,

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Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza talks about his latest album, the Steve Earle-produced East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem, which was released this week. ...
By Diane M. Bolz // Today, fewer than 50 Jews remain in Egypt, but for thousands of years the country was home to a series of important Jewish communities. ...

By Letty Cottin Pogrebin There are many reasons not to give to the homeless, but we should do it anyway.

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By Josh Tapper On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s body was discovered in a parked car on a San Francisco side

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Before I began reading Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, I was advised to obtain a copy of Vivian Gornick’s Romance of American Communism for a little crash course on its context. ...
Think you know what to eat to stay healthy? That fats are bad for you? That you will never again be able to enjoy the umami taste of schmaltz on a piece of matzoh? Or the crunch of gribenes (chicken-skin cracklings) that brings back the joys of your grandmother’s kitchen? ...