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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Voices of the ghetto heard around the world

A new documentary about an archive made by the people of the Warsaw Ghetto will be shown around the world on Holocaust Memorial Day

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Voices of the ghetto heard around the world

Celebrating the 'notorious' Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The triplets who met as teenagers

5 min read

The spy who wanted to heal the world

6 min read

The comfort of horror (films)

Ari Aster’s debut feature, Hereditary, has been hailed as a future horror classic. Stephen Applebaum meets a self-proclaimed neurotic hypochondriac

6 min read

June 14, 2018 09:48

Searching for her great-grandfather's lost pictures

Elizabeth Rynecki's new film tells the story of her quest to find her great-grandfather's works of art which captured the world of pre-war Polish Jewry

5 min read

May 24, 2018 11:06

Searching for her great-grandfather's lost pictures

‘I’m gay, raised as a Mormon and now I’m proudly Jewish.’

A new documentary tells the story of H. Alan Scott's journey from Mormon to Jew.

5 min read

March 1, 2018 10:53

‘I’m gay, raised as a Mormon and now I’m proudly Jewish.’

Interview: Steven Spielberg

Next year he'll celebrate 50 years as a Hollywood hotshot, this year he has two films out. Steven Spielberg tells Stephen Applebaum how it all started as a way of defusing antisemitism.

6 min read

January 18, 2018 10:28

Oren Moverman on his 'Trumpian' film

Stephen Applebaum met the Israeli director of The Dinner, which stars Steve Coogan and Richard Gere

4 min read

December 12, 2017 15:34

Foxtrot: a film about pain and trauma

The film Foxtrot has caused controversy in Israel. Stephen Applebaum met its director

3 min read

October 4, 2017 13:56

'I’ve always been seen by other people as Jewish'

Michael Showalter, actor, comedian and writer, reveals how his own family story prompted him to direct the hit film The Big Sick

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July 26, 2017 09:48

'I’ve always been seen by other people as Jewish'

Jake's going big — with a pig

He's known for his subtle style - but Jake Gyllenhaal's gone wild in his latest film, he tells Stephen Applebaum

5 min read

June 22, 2017 09:19

Talking to survivors

Llion Roberts' new documentary Destination Unknown captures the stories of Holocaust survivors. He tells Stephen Applebaum how and why he made the film.

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June 20, 2017 11:29