By Benjamin Ivry
‘Neighbor from hell’ is usually just an expression. But for Jewish historian Edgar Feuchtwanger, who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler, the term was remarkably apt.
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By Benjamin Ivry
The renowned Hungarian Jewish biblical scholar Geza Vermes, who died of cancer at age 88, disproved the old canard ‘You can’t go home again’ — at least when it comes to Judaism.
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By Benjamin Ivry
The Jewish psychologist Joyce Brothers, who died May 13 of respiratory failure at age 85, became an improbable authority on how to live in the mid-century suburban age.
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By Benjamin Ivry
One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, Vladimir Nabokov, author of ‘Lolita’ and ‘Pale Fire’ had a rich history with the Jewish people.
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By Benjamin Ivry
My Dad Is Baryshnikov,” directed by Dmitry Povolotsky, about a klutzy Russian Jewish version of Billy Elliot, is among the latest in a tradition of Russian Jews ardently seeking reflections of their own experience onscreen. This impulse dates back to the earliest years of cinema history, as is explained in the brilliantly researched
“Kinojudaica: Representations of Jews in Russian and Soviet Cinema from the 1910s to the 1980s.”Read More
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