A conversation with historian Sir Simon Schama about his new film "The Holocaust: 80 Years On. ...
A conversation about Art Spiegelman’s storied career as a cartoonist and editor. ...
A conversation about Senator Joe Lieberman’s life and political career, his resolve to find ways to work with others across the aisle, and what the future of democracy can look like if we find ways to come together, no matter our differences. ...
"Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief," historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of German art dealer Bruno Lohse who helped the Nazis with their looting operation. ...
Amichai Lau-Lavie and Sandi DuBowski are in conversation with Lau-Lavie’s longtime friend, journalist and writer Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, author of Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light, about the Sabbath Queen and what it means to be in the "messy middle." ...
How the Marienthal brothers’ Mister Kelly's club changed show business. ...
Join Hershey Felder for a wide-open conversation about why he is compelled to tell these stories through music, how being Jewish has influenced his work and what Jewish music means to him. ...
Television historians Walter Podrazik and Harry Castleman discuss the often-overlooked Jewish backgrounds of several of the show’s actors. ...
Famed ventriloquist and creator of the iconic puppet Lamb Chop, Shari Lewis was one of the few women to run her own television production company at a time when most women were shut out of the industry. Lewis and Lamb Chop entertained generations of children with their many television shows, ...
During the Red Scare and Hollywood blacklist period of the late 1950s, thousands of Americans, many of them Jews, were persecuted for their political beliefs, imperiling democracy. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Frankel, author of three books exploring the making of iconic American movies, including Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, ...
Asylum City, the critically acclaimed and popular Israeli series starring Israeli-American actress Hani Furstenberg, is set in the underworld of refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv. Based on the bestselling novel by lawyer turned author Liad Shoham, the series follows a young police officer named Anat (played by Furstenberg) ...
At a time when antisemitism is on the rise and the Holocaust is thrown around as a comparison to many of today’s political and social issues, what can movies about the Holocaust teach us? Holocaust scholar and film producer Michael Berenbaum is in conversation with Michael Berlin, screenwriter and founder ...