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Stephen Applebaum

Stephen Applebaum

Stephen Applebaum is a widely published UK-based writer with more than 25 years' of experience contributing to newspapers and glossies at home and abroad

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‘I was funnier than Mel Brooks’

Stephen Applebaum meets a Hollywood veteran taking his new show to Edinburgh

6 min read

‘I was funnier than Mel Brooks’

Meet the 'lion spy' who went undercover to expose the trophy hunters

Meet the 'lion spy' who went undercover to expose the trophy hunters

6 min read

Childfree by choice: Does that make me selfish?

Childfree by choice: Does that make me selfish?

6 min read

Andrew Garfield: 'I value my Jewish heritage so much'

Andrew Garfield: 'I value my Jewish heritage so much'

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Being Beanie

Beanie Feldstein is about to play the lead in Funny Girl on Broadway. It’s a dream come true for her, she tells Stephen Applebaum — and so is talking to the Jewish Chronicle

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December 23, 2021 11:54

Being Beanie

West Side Story's very Jewish roots

The classic musical - now reinvented by Steven Spielberg - started out as a story of warring Jews and Catholics

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December 9, 2021 09:55

This image released by 20th Century Studios shows Ariana DeBose as Anita in a scene from "West Side Story." (Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios)

The female cantor’s songs for Babyn Yar

Songs for Babyn Yar, will recall the massacre through a multilingual combination of music, poetry, and prose designed to move, challenge, and inspire

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November 19, 2021 15:22

The female cantor’s songs for Babyn Yar

Tim Blake Nelson: the thoughtful Jewish cowboy

The Hollywood actor that no one realises is Jewish talks to Stephen Applebaum about antisemitism, social media - and gun safety on film sets

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November 4, 2021 09:38

Tim Blake Nelson: the thoughtful Jewish cowboy

Why did so many Nazis escape justice?

Seventy five years after the Nuremberg trials, a new documentary asks why so many murderers got off scot free. Stephen Applebaum reports.

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September 29, 2021 18:25

Why did so many Nazis escape justice?

The woman who lied about a childhood among wolves

Stephen Applebaum meets the director of a new documentary which tells the story of a notorious Holocaust fake

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September 2, 2021 09:51

The woman who lied about a childhood among wolves

Re-imagining Peter Pan

Film-maker Benh Zeitlin's debut was an Oscar-nominated success. But there was a long wait for a follow-up.

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August 12, 2021 10:29

(From L-R): Krzysztof Meyn, Romyri Ross, Ahmad Cage, Gage Naquin, Gavin Naquin and Devin France in the film WENDY. Photo by Jess Pinkham. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

‘I’m trying to do something different … I don’t want to bore my audience’

Israeli film director Nir Bergman's latest movie opened in the UK this week - it features a father and son on the run

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July 26, 2021 17:37

‘I’m trying to do something different … I don’t want to bore my audience’

To understand Babi Yar, understand the context

A new documentary revisits the massacre of more than 33,000 Jews in the Ukraine

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July 8, 2021 21:29

To understand Babi Yar, understand the context

Is Germany learning the lessons of the past?

Filmmaker Elena Horn's documentary asks difficult questions about the way in which German teenagers are taught about the Holocaust

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March 18, 2021 11:13

Is Germany learning the lessons of the past?

‘Being Jewish… we were like lepers’

Film director Vadim Perelman's experience of antisemitism in his native Ukraine informs his new film, Persian Lessons, a gripping Holocaust drama

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January 21, 2021 12:05

‘Being Jewish… we were like lepers’

David Arquette: Fighting for his life

Actor and wrestler David Arquette tells Stephen Applebaum about his struggles in and out of the ring - and the strong Jewish roots that sustain him

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November 19, 2020 11:22

David Arquette: Fighting for his life

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