Four Novels of 2023 That Are More Jewish Than You Thought
2023 was one of those years when we really, really needed our books.
Staff Picks: ‘The Velvet Underground,’ ‘The Nazi’s Granddaughter’ and Tammy Faye
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Milan Kundera, ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ and Post-War Germany
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: From ‘Mrs. Maisel’ to ‘Of Mice and Men’
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Hunters, Hemingway and Harlem
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Madame Secretary, Modern Midrash and Melanie Phillips
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Medieval Jews in England, National Lampoon and Poland’s B-Day
What we’re reading—and watching—this week
Staff Picks: Weimar Berlin, Jewish Jazz and Ben Gurion’s Rice
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Lebanon’s First Oscar Nod, Mobula Rays and Gaby Hoffman
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Jewish Movie Roles Played by Non-Jewish Actors
Film icon Charlie Chaplin starred as the Jewish barber in The Great Dictator, a 1940 political satire that Chaplin wrote, produced and directed. The film, including Chaplin’s parody of Hitler, was a direct response to the Nazi Party’s false assertion that Chaplin was Jewish—and the banning of all of his films.
Moment staff picks: Jewish Movies to Watch on a Rainy Day
For pure cheesy pleasure, I’d go with The Ten Commandments, which frightened me so much as a child that I was actually taken out of the movie theater. I’m tougher now and, besides ever since taking my own kids on the Paramount Pictures tour that explained how the filmmakers used pre-CGI techniques to part the Red Sea, I’ve wanted to watch the thing through properly with lots of use of the pause button.