Feb
24
2025
This week: In our latest episode of On the Nose, contributing writer Rebecca Pierce, associate editor Mari Cohen, contributing editor Siddhartha Mahanta, and contributor Noah Kulwin discuss the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist and its portrayals of Israel, Zionism, and racialized antisemitism.
From our new Winter issue, writer Sanders Isaac Bernstein reviews the film The Klezmer Project and argues that it offers a new ethic of diasporism that disavows both Zionist violence and Yiddish sentimentalism.
And ahead of the Academy Awards this Sunday, we are sharing Israel/Palestine fellow Maya Rosen’s essay from last year about the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land, which depicts the co-resistance movement opposing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank—violence that has continued unabated, including against the film creators’ communities.
The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
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