Behind four of America’s most ‘Eminent Jews’

Behind four of America’s most ‘Eminent Jews’

If you were going to sum up the post-war American Jewish experience, who would you pick as the age’s great exemplars? The choices would clearly be dizzying.  In film there’s everyone from Woody Allen to Steven Spielberg to Stanley Kubrick. In literature, there’s Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud. In music, there was Bob … Read more

Poet Rose Styron had a charmed life full of A-list parties and hijinks

Poet Rose Styron had a charmed life full of A-list parties and hijinks

Rose Styron seemed destined for a charmed life.  When she was just 10 years old, on vacation to Mexico City, Rose announced she wanted “more than anything” to meet the great realist painter Diego Rivera. A few days later, she was in his studio. After showing her his “beautiful and horrible pictures,” the larger-than-life muralist shook her hand and said: … Read more