The 19th-century actress Sarah Bernhardt is feted at The Jewish Museum in New York City. Co-creators Carol Ockman of Williams College and Kenneth Silver of New York University tell Scott Simon about ...

(JNS) Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s ...

On the centenary of her death in 1923, the French Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt is being honored with a new book by film historian Victoria Duckett examining how Bernhardt transcended her humble ...

As actress Sarah Bernhardt reveled in her late-19th century fame, her unconventional offstage behavior — from sleeping in a coffin to riding in a hot air balloon — both intrigued and scandalized ...

Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The Divine ...

Tony Award winner Janet McTeer steps into the slippers of legendary French stage performer Sarah Bernhardt as she shrugs off gender constraints to claim Shakespeare's gloomy prince as her own in ...

New York — WHEN Sarah Bernhardt had herself photographed at 35 in her coffin, she was already well on her way to becoming the best-known person of her era. By the time the legendary French actress ...

Janet McTeer and Brittany Bradford in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Photo: Joan Marcus Rebeck clearly wants to free Bernhardt from this barrage of male analysis, to give her the space to speak anew and for ...

Reporting From Paris — Sarah Bernhardt -- a famous French actress -- died March 26, 1923, in Paris. She was 78. She has a star on the Hollywood Star Walk. In 2005, the Los Angeles Times wrote: “[She] ...

One summer day, some months before her death, my grandmother, who was then seventy-eight years old, summoned me to her room in the Manor house of Penhoet and said: “Lysiane, you are a writer and some ...