Haaretz–July 4, 2009
“Le Chante des Mariees” (“The Wedding Song”), directed by Karin Albou
Two young girls dressed up as brides are playing outside their home in Tunis in the years leading up to the German occupation. One sings to the other a haunting song: “The bride has blackened her eyelashes, made up her lips … hennaed [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Haaretz’
July 3, 2009
A Different Light
June 9, 2009
The sin of unrequited love
Haaretz–June 5, 2009
The Confessions of Noa Weber, by Gail Hareven (translated from the Hebrew, “She’ahava Nafshi,” by Dalya Bilu)
Melville House Publishing, 331 pages, $16.95 (paperback)
For the narrator and protagonist of Israeli writer Gail Hareven’s novel “The Confessions of Noa Weber,” life begins at 17. Her childhood, she tells us in the first pages, is “too [...]
March 6, 2009
A View from the Bridge
Haaretz–March 6, 2009
Crossing the Hudson
by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by David Dollenmayer)
Handsel Books, 219 pages, $14.95 (paperback)
Picture an overbearing Jewish mother screaming at the guy behind the counter of a car rental agency at Kennedy Airport in New York, while her embarrassed son cowers at her side. We’ve read scenarios like this [...]
January 6, 2009
Baring Body and Soul in Boro Park
Haaretz–January 6, 2009
Sima’s Undergarments for Women
by Ilana Stanger-Ross,
Overlook Press, 319 pages, $24.95
As the owner of a Brooklyn bra shop, Sima Goldner has seen breasts of all kinds– old and young, small and large, breasts with stretch marks, breasts pained by breastfeeding, even the scars left over by breasts that have been removed. But she has [...]
