We highly recommend Tablet’s Sara Ivry in audio conversation with scholar Ari Kelman on Yiddish-language radio programs. Touching and informative, this piece – complete with excerpts from the shows – is a fascinating insight into a period of time, a religion, and a culture. (more…)
Introducing the new bi-Thursday feature: in collaboration with the JTA, we pose “Four Questions” to one of our grantees or another fascinating figure of the Jewish cultural world about his or her work, life, opinions, and ideas. This week’s Questions are with our 2008 Goldberg Prize for Emerging Jewish Fiction winner Anya Ulinich, author of the new novel Petropolis.
4. You’re stuck on a (Russian) desert island. What are five items from the Motherland you wouldn’t be without?
“My mom. The collected works of Leo Tolstoy. Borscht. A double CD of Bulat Okudzhava (yes, I’m corny but nobody has to know since I’m alone on the island). How much money do I get to spend? A large jar of red caviar. I will need a refrigerator to keep my caviar. Is that number 6? ”
– Anya Ulinich
You can read the rest of the Four Questions with Anya Ulinich on the JTA website. Check back here for another Four Questions in two weeks – and for recommendations for excellent Jewish cultural events across the country in the days between.
The Foundation’s 2008 Jewish Cultural Achievement Award honoree Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett discusses the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (published in last edition of “OBIEG”).
