In our pop culture world, we recognize the actor before we remember the playwright, the dancer before the choreographer and the singer before the songwriter.

Exhibits/ Music Festivals/ Film Festivals/Theater EXHIBITS United States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) Features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles and

Exhibits Last Folio: A Photographic Journey With Yuri Dojc From Bardejov to Kosice, Lucenec to Michalovce, Slovakian-born photographer Yuri Dojc searched for his family’s past;

Books: A Tribute, With Warts and All June 2011 Nonfiction Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue

California is a place where people come to reinvent themselves, and that is especially true of Los Angeles, a sprawling city of dreams. That same

Sitting quietly in its corner of a Los Angeles park, the new home of the Museum of the Holocaust is almost invisible from the street.

Driving along a nondescript industrial strip in Oxnard, California, about an hour and a half northwest of Los Angeles, the prospect of fine dining seems

Great House: A Novelby Nicole Krauss. (W.W. Norton, 289 pp. $24.95) In Great House, Nicole Krauss, the author of the much-acclaimed The History of Love, has created