Julia M. Klein
Book Critic and Cultural Reporter at Freelance
Julia M. Klein is a Philadelphia-based cultural reporter and critic who writes about museums, theater, books, film, television and the media.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Julia M. Klein
Director G.W. Pabst, who briefly worked in Hollywood before returning to Austria and working with the Third Reich, inspired Daniel Kehlmann’s engrossing historical fiction. Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time.
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1 month ago |
forward.com | Julia M. Klein
Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End SlaveryBy Richard KreitnerFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32The central thesis of Richard Kreitner's Fear No Pharaoh is unsurprising: In the 19th-century, American Jews, like their compatriots, were all over the map in their attitudes toward slavery. Geography was a key factor, but not necessarily determinative. Some Jews in the South were slave owners.
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2 months ago |
forward.com | Julia M. Klein
Internee Number 6By Maria Eisenstein; translated by Will Schutt CPL Editions, 321 pages., $20The Italian internment camp of Maria Eisenstein's 1944 memoir isn't the hellscape of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Bergen-Belsen. In this former villa, no one is gassed or beaten to death or starved. "The days can be stomached," Eisenstein writes.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
latimes.com | Julia M. Klein
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Jan 27, 2025 |
yahoo.com | Julia M. Klein
Determined to secure her family’s future, Evelyn leaves her gang-plagued California desert town of Lancaster with her husband and five children. Using her aunt’s address, the 29-year-old waitress enrolls her four oldest in Monterey Park’s far better public schools. She manages to keep them there, even while fleeing her violent husband and toggling between rundown motels and scary, sleep-deprived nights in a 2008 Toyota Highlander.
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Review: Poignant #DesiArnaz bio spotlights drive and showbiz innovations of Lucy’s comic foil https://t.co/dHzrvnwPBi
Pam Jenoff’s latest novel was inspired by a Parisian furniture store that became a Nazi concentration camp https://t.co/aJKVefAI32
In “The Director,” inspired by G.W. Pabst, Leni Riefenstahl is among the bit players https://t.co/CtVLIz2L9b