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PJ Grisar

PJ Grisar is the Forward’s culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com.

Posted inCulture, Film

Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox, PJ Grisar and Olivia Haynie November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Holocaust movies have become such a genre of their own that it is hard for them to find anything new to say. Yet directors keep trying — perhaps out of a sense of duty, or the assumed prestige of the subject matter — to keep the atrocities […]

Spitzkopf book cover
Posted inBooks, Culture

Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?

by PJ Grisar October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Posted inCulture, History, TV

‘Heil Honey, I’m Home!’ — the scandalous Hitler sitcom you never saw

by PJ Grisar September 30, 2025September 30, 2025
Still from “Long Story Short.”
Posted inCulture, TV

‘BoJack Horseman’ creator on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair

by PJ Grisar August 15, 2025December 29, 2025
Posted inUncategorized, Art, Books, Culture, Film, Comics, TV & Film

New documentary tells how MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist

by PJ Grisar February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
Posted inCulture, Film, History, TV & Film

The Oscar race: Bob Dylan and László Tóth face the limits of Jewish reinvention

by PJ Grisar February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
A bronze statue of Columbus
Posted inCulture, TV, Opinion

Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish

by PJ Grisar October 14, 2024October 14, 2024
Posted inReligion, Sukkot, Holidays, Jewish Life

Amazon is selling Sukkot gift boxes that say ‘tuchus’

by PJ Grisar September 26, 2024September 26, 2024
Posted inBooks, Culture

Old Jewish Men — and all aspiring to that status — now have a guide of their own

by PJ Grisar September 18, 2024September 18, 2024
Posted inCulture, TV, TV & Film

Why the hot rabbi is having a moment (again)

by PJ Grisar September 12, 2024September 12, 2024

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