Arts & Culture Archives

Arts & Culture

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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2011 November-December, Arts & Culture, Big Questions

Symposium: The Origins of Jewish Creativity

October 2, 2024
By Moment
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Moment talks with artists, scientists and scholars to illuminate the source of human creativity. Interviews by Sarah Breger, Nadine Epstein, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Sala Levin and...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture

Book Review | Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

May 31, 2017
By Alan A. Stone
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Saul Friedländer Yale University Press 2013, $25.00, pp. 200 “Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me…in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture, Jewish Word, Jewish World

Jewish Word | Ghetto

July 25, 2019
By Eileen Lavine
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Venice, Harlem and Beyond There are few words that so acutely symbolize discrimination as “ghetto.” It was coined in Venice in 1516 to refer to a...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture

Children’s Book Author Interview: Jane Yolen

May 31, 2017
By Nadine Epstein
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Jane Yolen, author of the classic The Devil’s Arithmetic, is the renowned author of more than 300 books. Her books, poems and stories have won...

2011 September-October, Arts & Culture, Jewish World

Jews and the San Francisco Gold Rush

June 1, 2017
By Jeremy Gillick
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In the early 1850s, Adolph Sutro, a cocky young man with a thick walrus moustache, headed west to make his fortune. Originally from Prussia, Sutro...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture

Moment Mythbusters: Jews and Pets

July 17, 2024
By Sala Levin
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Today, the question of whether Jews dislike domestic pets may seem preposterous.

2011 March-April, Arts & Culture, Israel, Talk of the Table

Lebanon vs. Israel: A Delicious Culinary War

March 11, 2024
By Alix Mckenna
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The Lebanese counterattack on Israel was carefully planned, precisely organized and ruthlessly executed by an army of 300. The mission: Unseat Israel as the hummus...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture

Poem | Erica Jong

April 26, 2021
By Erica Jong
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Not With a Bang but With a Whimper (My mother died & the world did not end) How I wish it were apocalyptically dramatic— the end of the world Armageddon, burning books...

2013 May-June, Arts & Culture, Jewish World

Jewish Routes | Washington, DC

August 23, 2017
By Moment
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In Celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month Jews have had a major presence in Washington, DC, ever since young land speculator Isaac Polock arrived in 1795...

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