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  What We Talk about When We Talk about Philip Roth

  March 26, 2013 / Lectures Live

  Philip Roth is a titan of American literature with a remarkable oeuvre of more than thirty novels and countless literary accolades under his belt. On March 19th, 2013, Roth celebrated his eightieth birthday, a milestone marked by celebrations in his native Newark, New Jersey, as well as around the country. At the Program for Jewish Civilization, Director Jacques Berlinerblau, who teaches a course on the secular Jewish fiction of Philip Roth, interviewed one of the country’s foremost Roth experts, Dr. [...]

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  Septime Webre Discusses Male Ballet Dancers

  September 16, 2011 / Faith Complex

  In May 2011, PJC Director Jacques Berlinerblau wrote a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education about his younger son’s infatuation with ballet–and the schoolyard bullying that ensued. Professor Berlinerblau’s dissection of our gendered view of dance came to the attention of Septime Webre, talented artistic director of the Washington Ballet, who appears in this week’s Faith Complex. Webre joined the Washington Ballet in 1999 and has choreographed works that feature in the repertoires of prominent ballet companies around the [...]

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  ellen cherry on Music and Spirituality

  June 15, 2011 / Faith Complex

  Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter ellen cherry cites Rainer Maria Rilke, American history, and her own journey from Catholicism to rationalism as inspirations behind her expressive musical style. The Baltimore-based artist, who takes her stage name from the artsy protagonist of Tom Robbins’ Skinny Legs and All, began experimenting with a guitar in her 20s. She has since received numerous accolades, including two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards. In 2004, she founded her own studio and label, Wrong Size Shoes. In [...]

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  Geoffrey Aldridge on Art and Identity

  May 13, 2011 / Faith Complex

  What do fur-covered cinderblocks, yellow brick shoes, and an inflatable deer have in common? They’re all concepts DC artist Geoffrey Aldridge has put to good use in his provocative social commentary. Aldridge, a versatile up-and-coming multimedia artist, examines questions of identity and sexuality in his installations. Particularly memorable is his exhibition “Hole in the Wall,” which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. School of Foreign Service student Alexa West interviews Aldridge for this unique Faith Complex installment. They [...]

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  Martin Lemelman Revisits His Jewish Boyhood in Brooklyn

  August 3, 2010 / Faith Complex

  “Martin Lemelman,” proclaims his official author biography, “grew up in the back of a candy store in Brooklyn, New York, and is the child of Holocaust survivors.” These life experiences are richly and painstakingly recorded in Lemelman’s work as a graphic memoirist. His 2006 work Mendel’s Daughter, for instance, chronicles his mother Gusta’s girlhood in and eventual escape from Nazi-era Poland. More recently, he has published Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood, a bittersweet reminiscence on growing up in New [...]

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