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Remembering a Great Critic, and His Reflections on Jews, Art, and Humor
A “small-town boy from southeast Missouri” reads Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary.
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The Two Jewish Women Who Helped Write the Songs of Broadway’s Golden Age
Dorothy Fields and Carolyn Leigh.
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Cole Porter’s “Jewish Tunes”
A consummate WASP among Broadway’s Jews.
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Isaac Stern’s Judaism, His Genius, and Its Limitations
Unlike some contemporaries, he spoke unapologetically of his Jewish heritage.
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Telling the Story of Anne Frank by Videoconference
“The most stirring staging of the play I have ever seen.”
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The Discomfiting Legacy of the Virtuoso Pianist Who Became Vichy France’s Commissar of Music
Alfred Cortot.
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The Director and Choreographer of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and His Ambivalent Jewish Identity
What Jerome Robbins learned.
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Missing Charles Krauthammer
By Terry TeachoutCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How Jack Benny Turned Himself into WASP America’s Preposterous and Lovable Jewish Uncle
A comedian who embodied a Jewish stereotype from which the sting of prejudice had been leached.
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How Arturo Toscanini Defied Both Mussolini and Hitler
A moral virtuoso.
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Hitler’s Willing Orchestras
When music could not transcend evil.
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The Most American-Sounding “Fiddler on the Roof” Yet
Our shtetl.
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How FDR Failed the Jews
A new book tells the story.
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Is “Death of a Salesman” Better in Yiddish?
"The stark ring of a death sentence."
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“Going Under” in Europe
By Terry TeachoutIn one of those grisly juxtapositions that are so characteristic of life under the aspect of postmodernity, my first reading of “Wagner and the Jews” was interrupted by the breaking news of the Charl...
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Who’s Degenerate Now?
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.